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Salish Sea

Smoke – Residency

21st sighting in Salish Sea
Fluke of Smoke
Smoke Confirmed in the catalog @41375
Jun 22 – Aug 2, 2026 · Salish Sea

Known Waters, All Summer

Whole summer in these channels, and folks kept finding me here.

88 m
Deepest dive
3:47
Longest dive
74
Dives
Sightings
7
Days between first and last sighting
41

Dive stats modelled within real depth limits — not measured

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SightingSeafloorSea tempDeepest dive (modelled)
Jun 22, 2026105 m15.3°C71 m
Jun 23, 2026100 m14.9°C88 m
Jul 10, 202696 m13.6°C73 m
Jul 20, 202694 m16.4°C59 m
Jul 21, 2026109 m18.0°C67 m
Jul 31, 2026227 m14.4°C18 m
Aug 2, 2026103 m14.5°C34 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 22, 2026 — seafloor 105 m (measured), deepest dive 71 m (modelled)Jun 22Jun 23, 2026 — seafloor 100 m (measured), deepest dive 88 m (modelled)Jun 23Jul 10, 2026 — seafloor 96 m (measured), deepest dive 73 m (modelled)Jul 10Jul 20, 2026 — seafloor 94 m (measured), deepest dive 59 m (modelled)Jul 20Jul 21, 2026 — seafloor 109 m (measured), deepest dive 67 m (modelled)Jul 21Jul 31, 2026 — seafloor 227 m (measured), deepest dive 18 m (modelled)Jul 31Aug 2, 2026 — seafloor 103 m (measured), deepest dive 34 m (modelled)Aug 2

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

Dives

88 m
Deepest dive
3:47
Longest dive
74
Dives
24 m
Avg dive depth
7
Sightings
41
Days first → last

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Dive profile

modelled
05010088 mstartdive sequence (illustrative)

Depth shaped by the seafloor limit here (100 m) and the published dive-behaviour distribution. Modelled, not measured.

Deep Effort Score

Deep

Depth, duration and recovery resolved into a single number for this session.

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Place

Where this happened · Jun 23, 2026

measured
Seafloor depth
100 m
Sea-surface temperature
14.9°C
Distance from shore
4.0 km

Across the residency · 7 sightings

measured
Seafloor depth
94 m – 227 m
Sea-surface temperature
13.6°C – 18.0°C
Distance from shore
1.0 km – 4.0 km

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

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Source records

This activity is assembled from 7 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.

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