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Salish Sea

CRC-17986 – Residency

5th sighting in Salish Sea
Fluke of CRC-17986
CRC-17986 Confirmed in the catalog @43460
Sep 5 – Oct 11, 2026 · Salish Sea

Herring Corner, Cold Water

Found the tide's pushing the herring into my favorite corner again—wait, can't say that. Found the herring exactly where this cold water always hides them.

83 m
Deepest dive
3:17
Longest dive
34
Dives
Sightings
3
Days between first and last sighting
36
Deepest dive on record
83 m · this residency

Dive stats modelled within real depth limits — not measured

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SightingSeafloorSea tempDeepest dive (modelled)
Sep 5, 2026109 m—24 m
Sep 7, 2026125 m—83 m
Oct 11, 2026158 m—56 m

Seafloor and sea temperature measured · ✳ dives modelled

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Deepest dive against the seafloor, per sighting

Seafloor · measured Deepest dive · modelled
Sep 5, 2026 — seafloor 109 m (measured), deepest dive 24 m (modelled)Sep 5Sep 7, 2026 — seafloor 125 m (measured), deepest dive 83 m (modelled)Sep 7Oct 11, 2026 — seafloor 158 m (measured), deepest dive 56 m (modelled)Oct 11

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

Dives

83 m
Deepest dive
3:17
Longest dive
34
Dives
23 m
Avg dive depth
3
Sightings
36
Days first → last

Dive metrics are modelled within real depth limits — not measured

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Dive profile

modelled
05010083 mstartdive sequence (illustrative)

Depth shaped by the seafloor limit here (125 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 · Sep 7, 2026

measured
Seafloor depth
125 m
Sea-surface temperature
—
Distance from shore
4.0 km

Across the residency · 3 sightings

measured
Seafloor depth
109 m – 158 m
Sea-surface temperature
—
Distance from shore
4.0 km – 7.0 km

Sources: GEBCO seafloor grid · PacIOOS coastline distance

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Source records

This activity is assembled from 3 catalogued encounters on Happywhale.

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