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Salish Sea

Lunar – Residency

48th sighting in Salish Sea
Fluke of Lunar
Lunar Confirmed in the catalog @7211
Jul 15 – Sep 26, 2026 · Salish Sea

Late Summer in Green Water

These channels feed me well every single time I show up.

126 m
Deepest dive
3:29
Longest dive
72
Dives
Sightings
5
Days between first and last sighting
73

Dive stats modelled within real depth limits — not measured

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SightingSeafloorSea tempDeepest dive (modelled)
Jul 15, 202675 m16.0°C65 m
Jul 31, 2026206 m15.8°C126 m
Aug 18, 20264 m16.5°C4 m
Sep 12, 20264 m15.0°C4 m
Sep 26, 2026332 m14.3°C44 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 15, 2026 — seafloor 75 m (measured), deepest dive 65 m (modelled)Jul 15Jul 31, 2026 — seafloor 206 m (measured), deepest dive 126 m (modelled)Jul 31Aug 18, 2026 — seafloor 4 m (measured), deepest dive 4 m (modelled)Aug 18Sep 12, 2026 — seafloor 4 m (measured), deepest dive 4 m (modelled)Sep 12Sep 26, 2026 — seafloor 332 m (measured), deepest dive 44 m (modelled)Sep 26

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

Dives

126 m
Deepest dive
3:29
Longest dive
72
Dives
16 m
Avg dive depth
5
Sightings
73
Days first → last

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Dive profile

modelled
075150126 mstartdive sequence (illustrative)

Depth shaped by the seafloor limit here (206 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 · Jul 31, 2026

measured
Seafloor depth
206 m
Sea-surface temperature
15.8°C
Distance from shore
4.0 km

Across the residency · 5 sightings

measured
Seafloor depth
4 m – 332 m
Sea-surface temperature
14.3°C – 16.5°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.

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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