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Salish Sea

Raptor – Residency

52nd sighting in Salish Sea
Fluke of Raptor
Raptor Confirmed in the catalog @7009
Oct 21 – Dec 1, 2025 · Salish Sea

Salish Sea · Oct – Dec 2025

113 m
Deepest dive
5:10
Longest dive
65
Dives
Sightings
4
Days between first and last sighting
41

Dive stats modelled within real depth limits — not measured

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SightingSeafloorSea tempDeepest dive (modelled)
Oct 21, 202557 m10.4°C39 m
Nov 12, 202581 m11.0°C63 m
Nov 16, 202554 m10.6°C47 m
Dec 1, 2025237 m9.9°C113 m

Seafloor and sea temperature measured · ✳ dives modelled

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Deepest dive against the seafloor, per sighting

Seafloor · measured Deepest dive · modelled
Oct 21, 2025 — seafloor 57 m (measured), deepest dive 39 m (modelled)Oct 21Nov 12, 2025 — seafloor 81 m (measured), deepest dive 63 m (modelled)Nov 12Nov 16, 2025 — seafloor 54 m (measured), deepest dive 47 m (modelled)Nov 16Dec 1, 2025 — seafloor 237 m (measured), deepest dive 113 m (modelled)Dec 1

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

Dives

113 m
Deepest dive
5:10
Longest dive
65
Dives
24 m
Avg dive depth
4
Sightings
41
Days first → last

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Dive profile

modelled
075150113 mstartdive sequence (illustrative)

Depth shaped by the seafloor limit here (237 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 · Dec 1, 2025

measured
Seafloor depth
237 m
Sea-surface temperature
9.9°C
Distance from shore
1.0 km

Across the residency · 4 sightings

measured
Seafloor depth
54 m – 237 m
Sea-surface temperature
9.9°C – 11.0°C
Distance from shore
1.0 km – 4.0 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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