Salish Sea

Dot Narrows – Residency

12th sighting in Salish Sea
Dot Narrows Confirmed in the catalog @53253
Jul 15 – Sep 10, 2025 · Salish Sea

Salish Sea · Jul – Sep 2025

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Deepest dive
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Longest dive
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Dives
Sightings
3
Days between first and last sighting
56

Dive stats modelled within real depth limits — not measured

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SightingSeafloorSea tempDeepest dive (modelled)
Jul 15, 2025157 m17.9°C—
Aug 26, 2025242 m15.0°C—
Sep 10, 2025105 m16.8°C—

Seafloor and sea temperature measured · ✳ dives modelled

Deepest dive against the seafloor, per sighting

Seafloor · measured Deepest dive · modelled
Jul 15, 2025 — seafloor 157 m (measured), deepest dive — (modelled)Jul 15Aug 26, 2025 — seafloor 242 m (measured), deepest dive — (modelled)Aug 26Sep 10, 2025 — seafloor 105 m (measured), deepest dive — (modelled)Sep 10

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

Dives

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Deepest dive
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Longest dive
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Dives
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Avg dive depth
3
Sightings
56
Days first → last

Dive metrics are modelled within real depth limits — not measured

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Dive profile

modelled
02550startdive sequence (illustrative)

Modelled from the published dive-behaviour distribution. 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 10, 2025

measured
Seafloor depth
105 m
Sea-surface temperature
16.8°C
Distance from shore
3.0 km

Across the residency · 3 sightings

measured
Seafloor depth
105 m – 242 m
Sea-surface temperature
15.0°C – 17.9°C
Distance from shore
2.0 km – 9.0 km

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

Source records

This activity is assembled from 3 catalogued encounters on Happywhale.

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