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Salish Sea

Zorro – Residency

26th sighting in Salish Sea
Fluke of Zorro
Zorro Confirmed in the catalog @7031
Jul 3 – Sep 15, 2026 · Salish Sea

Green Water Season

Cedar on the wind, bait where I expect it, good company all around.

100 m
Deepest dive
3:32
Longest dive
52
Dives
Sightings
5
Days between first and last sighting
74

Dive stats modelled within real depth limits — not measured

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SightingSeafloorSea tempDeepest dive (modelled)
Jul 3, 2026421 m13.1°C99 m
Aug 1, 2026237 m15.4°C68 m
Aug 5, 2026242 m15.6°C100 m
Aug 29, 202637 m16.5°C30 m
Sep 15, 2026228 m—86 m

Seafloor and sea temperature measured · ✳ dives modelled

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Deepest dive against the seafloor, per sighting

Seafloor · measured Deepest dive · modelled
Jul 3, 2026 — seafloor 421 m (measured), deepest dive 99 m (modelled)Jul 3Aug 1, 2026 — seafloor 237 m (measured), deepest dive 68 m (modelled)Aug 1Aug 5, 2026 — seafloor 242 m (measured), deepest dive 100 m (modelled)Aug 5Aug 29, 2026 — seafloor 37 m (measured), deepest dive 30 m (modelled)Aug 29Sep 15, 2026 — seafloor 228 m (measured), deepest dive 86 m (modelled)Sep 15

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

Dives

100 m
Deepest dive
3:32
Longest dive
52
Dives
32 m
Avg dive depth
5
Sightings
74
Days first → last

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Dive profile

modelled
075150100 mstartdive sequence (illustrative)

Depth shaped by the seafloor limit here (242 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 5, 2026

measured
Seafloor depth
242 m
Sea-surface temperature
15.6°C
Distance from shore
1.0 km

Across the residency · 5 sightings

measured
Seafloor depth
37 m – 421 m
Sea-surface temperature
13.1°C – 16.5°C
Distance from shore
1.0 km

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

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Source records

This activity is assembled from 5 catalogued encounters on Happywhale.

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