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Salish Sea

Slipstream – Residency

10th sighting in Salish Sea
Fluke of Slipstream
Slipstream Confirmed in the catalog @58083
Aug 4 – 19, 2025 · Salish Sea

Salish Sea · Aug 2025

80 m
Deepest dive
3:30
Longest dive
56
Dives
Sightings
4
Days between first and last sighting
15

Dive stats modelled within real depth limits — not measured

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SightingSeafloorSea tempDeepest dive (modelled)
Aug 4, 2025135 m16.9°C43 m
Aug 6, 202582 m14.8°C58 m
Aug 16, 2025168 m14.7°C80 m
Aug 19, 2025159 m14.8°C29 m

Seafloor and sea temperature measured · ✳ dives modelled

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Deepest dive against the seafloor, per sighting

Seafloor · measured Deepest dive · modelled
Aug 4, 2025 — seafloor 135 m (measured), deepest dive 43 m (modelled)Aug 4Aug 6, 2025 — seafloor 82 m (measured), deepest dive 58 m (modelled)Aug 6Aug 16, 2025 — seafloor 168 m (measured), deepest dive 80 m (modelled)Aug 16Aug 19, 2025 — seafloor 159 m (measured), deepest dive 29 m (modelled)Aug 19

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

Dives

80 m
Deepest dive
3:30
Longest dive
56
Dives
22 m
Avg dive depth
4
Sightings
15
Days first → last

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Dive profile

modelled
05010080 mstartdive sequence (illustrative)

Depth shaped by the seafloor limit here (168 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 · Aug 16, 2025

measured
Seafloor depth
168 m
Sea-surface temperature
14.7°C
Distance from shore
5.0 km

Across the residency · 4 sightings

measured
Seafloor depth
82 m – 168 m
Sea-surface temperature
14.7°C – 16.9°C
Distance from shore
3.0 km – 7.0 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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