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Salish Sea

Wisp - † – Residency

20th sighting in Salish Sea
Fluke of Wisp - †
Wisp - † Confirmed in the catalog @72413
May 9 – Aug 14, 2025 · Salish Sea

Salish Sea · May – Aug 2025

114 m
Deepest dive
4:18
Longest dive
72
Dives
Sightings
7
Days between first and last sighting
97

Dive stats modelled within real depth limits — not measured

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SightingSeafloorSea tempDeepest dive (modelled)
May 9, 2025129 m—114 m
May 23, 202511 m—10 m
May 31, 202594 m—40 m
Jun 6, 2025126 m—102 m
Jul 28, 2025159 m—56 m
Aug 8, 20251 m—1 m
Aug 14, 202541 m—27 m

Seafloor and sea temperature measured · ✳ dives modelled

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Deepest dive against the seafloor, per sighting

Seafloor · measured Deepest dive · modelled
May 9, 2025 — seafloor 129 m (measured), deepest dive 114 m (modelled)May 9May 23, 2025 — seafloor 11 m (measured), deepest dive 10 m (modelled)May 23May 31, 2025 — seafloor 94 m (measured), deepest dive 40 m (modelled)May 31Jun 6, 2025 — seafloor 126 m (measured), deepest dive 102 m (modelled)Jun 6Jul 28, 2025 — seafloor 159 m (measured), deepest dive 56 m (modelled)Jul 28Aug 8, 2025 — seafloor 1 m (measured), deepest dive 1 m (modelled)Aug 8Aug 14, 2025 — seafloor 41 m (measured), deepest dive 27 m (modelled)Aug 14

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

Dives

114 m
Deepest dive
4:18
Longest dive
72
Dives
19 m
Avg dive depth
7
Sightings
97
Days first → last

Dive metrics are modelled within real depth limits — not measured

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Dive profile

modelled
075150114 mstartdive sequence (illustrative)

Depth shaped by the seafloor limit here (129 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 · May 9, 2025

measured
Seafloor depth
129 m
Sea-surface temperature
—
Distance from shore
—

Across the residency · 7 sightings

measured
Seafloor depth
1 m – 159 m
Sea-surface temperature
—
Distance from shore
1.0 km – 5.0 km

Sources: GEBCO seafloor grid · PacIOOS coastline distance

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Source records

This activity is assembled from 7 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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