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Salish Sea

Ocean – Residency

25th sighting in Salish Sea
Fluke of Ocean
Ocean Confirmed in the catalog @4637
Jun 29 – Jul 22, 2026 · Salish Sea

Green Water, Full House

Crowded channels, herring running thick, and every shoreline exactly where I left it.

102 m
Deepest dive
4:03
Longest dive
31
Dives
Sightings
4
Days between first and last sighting
23

Dive stats modelled within real depth limits — not measured

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SightingSeafloorSea tempDeepest dive (modelled)
Jun 29, 2026151 m13.0°C68 m
Jul 3, 2026180 m13.1°C97 m
Jul 5, 202698 m16.1°C74 m
Jul 22, 2026219 m19.4°C102 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 29, 2026 — seafloor 151 m (measured), deepest dive 68 m (modelled)Jun 29Jul 3, 2026 — seafloor 180 m (measured), deepest dive 97 m (modelled)Jul 3Jul 5, 2026 — seafloor 98 m (measured), deepest dive 74 m (modelled)Jul 5Jul 22, 2026 — seafloor 219 m (measured), deepest dive 102 m (modelled)Jul 22

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

Dives

102 m
Deepest dive
4:03
Longest dive
31
Dives
27 m
Avg dive depth
4
Sightings
23
Days first → last

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Dive profile

modelled
075150102 mstartdive sequence (illustrative)

Depth shaped by the seafloor limit here (219 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 22, 2026

measured
Seafloor depth
219 m
Sea-surface temperature
19.4°C
Distance from shore
6.0 km

Across the residency · 4 sightings

measured
Seafloor depth
98 m – 219 m
Sea-surface temperature
13.0°C – 19.4°C
Distance from shore
6.0 km – 11.0 km

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

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Source records

This activity is assembled from 4 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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