Activity map — real sighting points on an OpenStreetMap basemap © OpenStreetMap contributors
Salish Sea

Lunar – Residency

43rd sighting in Salish Sea
Fluke of Lunar
Lunar Confirmed in the catalog @7211
Aug 3 – Sep 20, 2025 · Salish Sea

Salish Sea · Aug – Sep 2025

188 m
Deepest dive
5:43
Longest dive
41
Dives
Sightings
4
Days between first and last sighting
48
Deepest dive on record
188 m · this residency

Dive stats modelled within real depth limits — not measured

Get actual dive data with Risa Deep →
SightingSeafloorSea tempDeepest dive (modelled)
Aug 3, 2025292 m19.7°C188 m
Aug 3, 2025328 m20.1°C161 m
Aug 11, 2025157 m15.6°C47 m
Sep 20, 2025257 m14.7°C145 m

Seafloor and sea temperature measured · ✳ dives modelled

Activity map — real sighting points on an OpenStreetMap basemap © OpenStreetMap contributors

Deepest dive against the seafloor, per sighting

Seafloor · measured Deepest dive · modelled
Aug 3, 2025 — seafloor 292 m (measured), deepest dive 188 m (modelled)Aug 3Aug 3, 2025 — seafloor 328 m (measured), deepest dive 161 m (modelled)Aug 3Aug 11, 2025 — seafloor 157 m (measured), deepest dive 47 m (modelled)Aug 11Sep 20, 2025 — seafloor 257 m (measured), deepest dive 145 m (modelled)Sep 20

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

Dives

188 m
Deepest dive
5:43
Longest dive
41
Dives
40 m
Avg dive depth
4
Sightings
48
Days first → last

Dive metrics are modelled within real depth limits — not measured

Get actual dive data with Risa Deep →

Dive profile

modelled
0100200188 mstartdive sequence (illustrative)

Depth shaped by the seafloor limit here (292 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.

Unlock with Risa Deep

Place

Where this happened · Aug 3, 2025

measured
Seafloor depth
292 m
Sea-surface temperature
19.7°C
Distance from shore
7.0 km

Across the residency · 4 sightings

measured
Seafloor depth
157 m – 328 m
Sea-surface temperature
14.7°C – 20.1°C
Distance from shore
2.0 km – 12.0 km

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

Activity map — real sighting points on an OpenStreetMap basemap © OpenStreetMap contributors

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.

The photographs and fluke identifications behind every sighting are the work of the contributing observers — the citizen scientists, naturalists and operators who logged them, each named in the underlying GBIF occurrence record. Every activity links out to its source encounters on Happywhale. Basemaps © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL).

Happywhale runs on donations: support Happywhale →

Breach is an independent project. It is not affiliated with, nor endorsed by, Happywhale or GBIF.