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Salish Sea

Niagara – Residency

40th sighting in Salish Sea
Fluke of Niagara
Niagara Confirmed in the catalog @6489
Jun 14 – Sep 27, 2026 · Salish Sea

Salish Sea, All Summer

Cameras clicking all season—this feeding ground knows my fluke well.

110 m
Deepest dive
3:58
Longest dive
116
Dives
Sightings
10
Days between first and last sighting
105

Dive stats modelled within real depth limits — not measured

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SightingSeafloorSea tempDeepest dive (modelled)
Jun 14, 202625 m15.7°C20 m
Jun 24, 2026143 m15.5°C62 m
Jul 17, 2026264 m15.9°C64 m
Jul 19, 2026246 m15.0°C47 m
Jul 20, 2026211 m16.6°C60 m
Aug 10, 2026194 m16.1°C76 m
Aug 25, 202698 m15.7°C87 m
Aug 26, 2026120 m16.2°C110 m
Sep 11, 2026163 m15.6°C52 m
Sep 27, 2026214 m14.0°C16 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 14, 2026 — seafloor 25 m (measured), deepest dive 20 m (modelled)Jun 14Jun 24, 2026 — seafloor 143 m (measured), deepest dive 62 m (modelled)Jun 24Jul 17, 2026 — seafloor 264 m (measured), deepest dive 64 m (modelled)Jul 17Jul 19, 2026 — seafloor 246 m (measured), deepest dive 47 m (modelled)Jul 19Jul 20, 2026 — seafloor 211 m (measured), deepest dive 60 m (modelled)Jul 20Aug 10, 2026 — seafloor 194 m (measured), deepest dive 76 m (modelled)Aug 10Aug 25, 2026 — seafloor 98 m (measured), deepest dive 87 m (modelled)Aug 25Aug 26, 2026 — seafloor 120 m (measured), deepest dive 110 m (modelled)Aug 26Sep 11, 2026 — seafloor 163 m (measured), deepest dive 52 m (modelled)Sep 11Sep 27, 2026 — seafloor 214 m (measured), deepest dive 16 m (modelled)Sep 27

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

Dives

110 m
Deepest dive
3:58
Longest dive
116
Dives
24 m
Avg dive depth
10
Sightings
105
Days first → last

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Dive profile

modelled
075150110 mstartdive sequence (illustrative)

Depth shaped by the seafloor limit here (120 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 26, 2026

measured
Seafloor depth
120 m
Sea-surface temperature
16.2°C
Distance from shore
3.0 km

Across the residency · 10 sightings

measured
Seafloor depth
25 m – 264 m
Sea-surface temperature
14.0°C – 16.6°C
Distance from shore
1.0 km – 8.0 km

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

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Source records

This activity is assembled from 10 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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