Salish Sea

Dot Narrows – Residency

30th sighting in Salish Sea
Dot Narrows Confirmed in the catalog @53253
Jul 13 – Oct 10, 2026 · Salish Sea

Salish Sea · Jul – Oct 2026

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Deepest dive
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Longest dive
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Dives
Sightings
18
Days between first and last sighting
89

Dive stats modelled within real depth limits — not measured

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SightingSeafloorSea tempDeepest dive (modelled)
Jul 13, 2026128 m14.6°C—
Jul 15, 2026105 m15.8°C—
Jul 16, 2026117 m15.7°C—
Jul 29, 2026223 m14.5°C—
Jul 31, 2026252 m14.4°C—
Aug 7, 2026150 m14.9°C—
Aug 9, 202613 m14.2°C—
Aug 10, 202613 m14.2°C—
Aug 17, 2026149 m15.9°C—
Aug 18, 2026185 m15.5°C—
Aug 21, 2026208 m15.0°C—
Aug 23, 202616 m14.5°C—
Sep 3, 202614 m——
Sep 5, 202625 m——
Sep 12, 2026252 m——
Sep 26, 202624 m——
Oct 1, 202664 m——
Oct 10, 20264 m——

Seafloor and sea temperature measured · ✳ dives modelled

Deepest dive against the seafloor, per sighting

Seafloor · measured Deepest dive · modelled
Jul 13, 2026 — seafloor 128 m (measured), deepest dive — (modelled)Jul 13Jul 15, 2026 — seafloor 105 m (measured), deepest dive — (modelled)Jul 16, 2026 — seafloor 117 m (measured), deepest dive — (modelled)Jul 29, 2026 — seafloor 223 m (measured), deepest dive — (modelled)Jul 29Jul 31, 2026 — seafloor 252 m (measured), deepest dive — (modelled)Aug 7, 2026 — seafloor 150 m (measured), deepest dive — (modelled)Aug 9, 2026 — seafloor 13 m (measured), deepest dive — (modelled)Aug 9Aug 10, 2026 — seafloor 13 m (measured), deepest dive — (modelled)Aug 17, 2026 — seafloor 149 m (measured), deepest dive — (modelled)Aug 18, 2026 — seafloor 185 m (measured), deepest dive — (modelled)Aug 18Aug 21, 2026 — seafloor 208 m (measured), deepest dive — (modelled)Aug 23, 2026 — seafloor 16 m (measured), deepest dive — (modelled)Sep 3, 2026 — seafloor 14 m (measured), deepest dive — (modelled)Sep 3Sep 5, 2026 — seafloor 25 m (measured), deepest dive — (modelled)Sep 12, 2026 — seafloor 252 m (measured), deepest dive — (modelled)Sep 26, 2026 — seafloor 24 m (measured), deepest dive — (modelled)Sep 26Oct 1, 2026 — seafloor 64 m (measured), deepest dive — (modelled)Oct 10, 2026 — seafloor 4 m (measured), deepest dive — (modelled)

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
18
Sightings
89
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 · Oct 10, 2026

measured
Seafloor depth
4 m
Sea-surface temperature
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Distance from shore
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Across the residency · 18 sightings

measured
Seafloor depth
4 m – 252 m
Sea-surface temperature
14.2°C – 15.9°C
Distance from shore
1.0 km – 7.0 km

Sources: GEBCO seafloor grid

Source records

This activity is assembled from 18 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.

The photographs and fluke identifications behind every sighting are the work of the contributing observers — the citizen scientists, naturalists and operators who logged them, each named in the underlying GBIF occurrence record. Every activity links out to its source encounters on Happywhale. Basemaps © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL).

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