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Salish Sea

KC - Kelp Creature – Residency

27th sighting in Salish Sea
Fluke of KC - Kelp Creature
KC - Kelp Creature Confirmed in the catalog @4982
Jun 5 – Oct 7, 2026 · Salish Sea

Kelp-Free Summer Cruising

Mid-summer in these channels, no seaweed required, just me and the deep.

194 m
Deepest dive
10:01
Longest dive
78
Dives
Sightings
7
Days between first and last sighting
124
Deepest dive on record
194 m · this residency

Dive stats modelled within real depth limits — not measured

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SightingSeafloorSea tempDeepest dive (modelled)
Jun 5, 2026173 m10.6°C109 m
Jun 7, 202631 m10.7°C22 m
Jun 17, 2026236 m14.7°C194 m
Jul 14, 2026134 m15.6°C66 m
Aug 17, 2026197 m15.0°C114 m
Sep 18, 202691 m14.0°C53 m
Oct 7, 202624 m13.8°C19 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 5, 2026 — seafloor 173 m (measured), deepest dive 109 m (modelled)Jun 5Jun 7, 2026 — seafloor 31 m (measured), deepest dive 22 m (modelled)Jun 7Jun 17, 2026 — seafloor 236 m (measured), deepest dive 194 m (modelled)Jun 17Jul 14, 2026 — seafloor 134 m (measured), deepest dive 66 m (modelled)Jul 14Aug 17, 2026 — seafloor 197 m (measured), deepest dive 114 m (modelled)Aug 17Sep 18, 2026 — seafloor 91 m (measured), deepest dive 53 m (modelled)Sep 18Oct 7, 2026 — seafloor 24 m (measured), deepest dive 19 m (modelled)Oct 7

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

Dives

194 m
Deepest dive
10:01
Longest dive
78
Dives
30 m
Avg dive depth
7
Sightings
124
Days first → last

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Dive profile

modelled
0100200194 mstartdive sequence (illustrative)

Depth shaped by the seafloor limit here (236 m) and the published dive-behaviour distribution. Modelled, not measured.

Deep Effort Score

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

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Place

Where this happened · Jun 17, 2026

measured
Seafloor depth
236 m
Sea-surface temperature
14.7°C
Distance from shore
—

Across the residency · 7 sightings

measured
Seafloor depth
24 m – 236 m
Sea-surface temperature
10.6°C – 15.6°C
Distance from shore
1.0 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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