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Salish Sea

Zephyr – Residency

106th sighting in Salish Sea
Fluke of Zephyr
Zephyr Confirmed in the catalog @4182
Jun 27 – Sep 30, 2026 · Salish Sea

Herring Are Running

Slack tide, full channels, and me just breathing easy all summer.

149 m
Deepest dive
6:33
Longest dive
155
Dives
Sightings
15
Days between first and last sighting
95
Deepest dive on record
149 m · this residency

Dive stats modelled within real depth limits — not measured

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SightingSeafloorSea tempDeepest dive (modelled)
Jun 27, 2026167 m13.9°C67 m
Jul 2, 2026174 m13.0°C129 m
Jul 7, 202672 m16.6°C39 m
Jul 8, 2026141 m16.8°C77 m
Jul 10, 2026116 m13.8°C69 m
Jul 17, 2026124 m15.0°C41 m
Jul 19, 2026105 m13.8°C92 m
Jul 20, 2026194 m15.8°C149 m
Aug 2, 2026107 m15.5°C15 m
Aug 4, 2026227 m15.4°C107 m
Aug 10, 2026173 m16.6°C117 m
Sep 1, 2026112 m16.0°C59 m
Sep 4, 20264 m15.3°C3 m
Sep 14, 202673 m15.2°C44 m
Sep 30, 2026128 m13.8°C51 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 27, 2026 — seafloor 167 m (measured), deepest dive 67 m (modelled)Jun 27Jul 2, 2026 — seafloor 174 m (measured), deepest dive 129 m (modelled)Jul 7, 2026 — seafloor 72 m (measured), deepest dive 39 m (modelled)Jul 8, 2026 — seafloor 141 m (measured), deepest dive 77 m (modelled)Jul 8Jul 10, 2026 — seafloor 116 m (measured), deepest dive 69 m (modelled)Jul 17, 2026 — seafloor 124 m (measured), deepest dive 41 m (modelled)Jul 19, 2026 — seafloor 105 m (measured), deepest dive 92 m (modelled)Jul 19Jul 20, 2026 — seafloor 194 m (measured), deepest dive 149 m (modelled)Aug 2, 2026 — seafloor 107 m (measured), deepest dive 15 m (modelled)Aug 4, 2026 — seafloor 227 m (measured), deepest dive 107 m (modelled)Aug 4Aug 10, 2026 — seafloor 173 m (measured), deepest dive 117 m (modelled)Sep 1, 2026 — seafloor 112 m (measured), deepest dive 59 m (modelled)Sep 4, 2026 — seafloor 4 m (measured), deepest dive 3 m (modelled)Sep 4Sep 14, 2026 — seafloor 73 m (measured), deepest dive 44 m (modelled)Sep 30, 2026 — seafloor 128 m (measured), deepest dive 51 m (modelled)

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

Dives

149 m
Deepest dive
6:33
Longest dive
155
Dives
26 m
Avg dive depth
15
Sightings
95
Days first → last

Dive metrics are modelled within real depth limits — not measured

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Dive profile

modelled
075150149 mstartdive sequence (illustrative)

Depth shaped by the seafloor limit here (194 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 · Jul 20, 2026

measured
Seafloor depth
194 m
Sea-surface temperature
15.8°C
Distance from shore
1.0 km

Across the residency · 15 sightings

measured
Seafloor depth
4 m – 227 m
Sea-surface temperature
13.0°C – 16.8°C
Distance from shore
1.0 km – 13.0 km

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

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Source records

This activity is assembled from 15 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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