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Salish Sea

Raptor – Residency

48th sighting in Salish Sea
Fluke of Raptor
Raptor Confirmed in the catalog @7009
Apr 4 – Jun 29, 2025 · Salish Sea

Salish Sea · Apr – Jun 2025

121 m
Deepest dive
4:28
Longest dive
35
Dives
Sightings
4
Days between first and last sighting
86

Dive stats modelled within real depth limits — not measured

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SightingSeafloorSea tempDeepest dive (modelled)
Apr 4, 202589 m7.5°C63 m
May 17, 2025170 m11.4°C69 m
Jun 10, 202593 m13.5°C44 m
Jun 29, 2025174 m10.9°C121 m

Seafloor and sea temperature measured · ✳ dives modelled

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Deepest dive against the seafloor, per sighting

Seafloor · measured Deepest dive · modelled
Apr 4, 2025 — seafloor 89 m (measured), deepest dive 63 m (modelled)Apr 4May 17, 2025 — seafloor 170 m (measured), deepest dive 69 m (modelled)May 17Jun 10, 2025 — seafloor 93 m (measured), deepest dive 44 m (modelled)Jun 10Jun 29, 2025 — seafloor 174 m (measured), deepest dive 121 m (modelled)Jun 29

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

Dives

121 m
Deepest dive
4:28
Longest dive
35
Dives
29 m
Avg dive depth
4
Sightings
86
Days first → last

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Dive profile

modelled
075150121 mstartdive sequence (illustrative)

Depth shaped by the seafloor limit here (174 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 · Jun 29, 2025

measured
Seafloor depth
174 m
Sea-surface temperature
10.9°C
Distance from shore
1.0 km

Across the residency · 4 sightings

measured
Seafloor depth
89 m – 174 m
Sea-surface temperature
7.5°C – 13.5°C
Distance from shore
1.0 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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