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Salish Sea

Anvil – Residency

47th sighting in Salish Sea
Fluke of Anvil
Anvil Confirmed in the catalog @3775
Jun 14 – Aug 24, 2026 · Salish Sea

Cold Water, Easy Living

Whole summer in my bay, found every time I surfaced.

135 m
Deepest dive
4:38
Longest dive
116
Dives
Sightings
10
Days between first and last sighting
71

Dive stats modelled within real depth limits — not measured

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SightingSeafloorSea tempDeepest dive (modelled)
Jun 14, 202683 m13.2°C48 m
Jul 5, 2026270 m16.9°C25 m
Jul 17, 2026264 m15.9°C47 m
Jul 20, 2026211 m16.6°C121 m
Jul 21, 2026209 m17.8°C51 m
Jul 21, 2026109 m18.0°C95 m
Jul 23, 2026251 m18.1°C135 m
Jul 28, 2026178 m15.4°C62 m
Aug 23, 2026187 m15.6°C56 m
Aug 24, 2026221 m15.6°C33 m

Seafloor and sea temperature measured · ✳ dives modelled

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Deepest dive against the seafloor, per sighting

Seafloor · measured Deepest dive · modelled
Jun 14, 2026 — seafloor 83 m (measured), deepest dive 48 m (modelled)Jun 14Jul 5, 2026 — seafloor 270 m (measured), deepest dive 25 m (modelled)Jul 5Jul 17, 2026 — seafloor 264 m (measured), deepest dive 47 m (modelled)Jul 17Jul 20, 2026 — seafloor 211 m (measured), deepest dive 121 m (modelled)Jul 20Jul 21, 2026 — seafloor 209 m (measured), deepest dive 51 m (modelled)Jul 21Jul 21, 2026 — seafloor 109 m (measured), deepest dive 95 m (modelled)Jul 21Jul 23, 2026 — seafloor 251 m (measured), deepest dive 135 m (modelled)Jul 23Jul 28, 2026 — seafloor 178 m (measured), deepest dive 62 m (modelled)Jul 28Aug 23, 2026 — seafloor 187 m (measured), deepest dive 56 m (modelled)Aug 23Aug 24, 2026 — seafloor 221 m (measured), deepest dive 33 m (modelled)Aug 24

Depth runs down from the surface. The modelled dive never passes the measured seafloor at that sighting.

Dives

135 m
Deepest dive
4:38
Longest dive
116
Dives
24 m
Avg dive depth
10
Sightings
71
Days first → last

Dive metrics are modelled within real depth limits — not measured

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Dive profile

modelled
075150135 mstartdive sequence (illustrative)

Depth shaped by the seafloor limit here (251 m) and the published dive-behaviour distribution. Modelled, not measured.

Deep Effort Score

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Place

Where this happened · Jul 23, 2026

measured
Seafloor depth
251 m
Sea-surface temperature
18.1°C
Distance from shore
4.0 km

Across the residency · 10 sightings

measured
Seafloor depth
83 m – 270 m
Sea-surface temperature
13.2°C – 18.1°C
Distance from shore
1.0 km – 12.0 km

Sources: GEBCO seafloor grid · NASA JPL MUR sea temperature · PacIOOS coastline distance

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Source records

This activity is assembled from 10 catalogued encounters on Happywhale.

Sighting records from Happywhale, published as occurrence data via GBIF. Individual records are licensed CC0 1.0, CC BY 4.0 or CC BY-NC 4.0, depending on the contributor.

The photographs and fluke identifications behind every sighting are the work of the contributing observers — the citizen scientists, naturalists and operators who logged them, each named in the underlying GBIF occurrence record. Every activity links out to its source encounters on Happywhale. Basemaps © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL).

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