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Salish Sea

Scissorhands – Residency

18th sighting in Salish Sea
Fluke of Scissorhands
Scissorhands Confirmed in the catalog @7190
Aug 4 – Oct 4, 2026 · Salish Sea

Herring Season, My Waters

August thick with herring — these bays fed me long before Sakura's crossing.

115 m
Deepest dive
4:40
Longest dive
75
Dives
Sightings
5
Days between first and last sighting
61

Dive stats modelled within real depth limits — not measured

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SightingSeafloorSea tempDeepest dive (modelled)
Aug 4, 202661 m14.5°C42 m
Aug 5, 2026106 m14.4°C75 m
Aug 21, 2026154 m14.9°C115 m
Sep 21, 2026161 m—65 m
Oct 4, 2026111 m—76 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, 2026 — seafloor 61 m (measured), deepest dive 42 m (modelled)Aug 4Aug 5, 2026 — seafloor 106 m (measured), deepest dive 75 m (modelled)Aug 5Aug 21, 2026 — seafloor 154 m (measured), deepest dive 115 m (modelled)Aug 21Sep 21, 2026 — seafloor 161 m (measured), deepest dive 65 m (modelled)Sep 21Oct 4, 2026 — seafloor 111 m (measured), deepest dive 76 m (modelled)Oct 4

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

Dives

115 m
Deepest dive
4:40
Longest dive
75
Dives
26 m
Avg dive depth
5
Sightings
61
Days first → last

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Dive profile

modelled
075150115 mstartdive sequence (illustrative)

Depth shaped by the seafloor limit here (154 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 21, 2026

measured
Seafloor depth
154 m
Sea-surface temperature
14.9°C
Distance from shore
8.0 km

Across the residency · 5 sightings

measured
Seafloor depth
61 m – 161 m
Sea-surface temperature
14.4°C – 14.9°C
Distance from shore
3.0 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 5 catalogued encounters on Happywhale.

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