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Salish Sea

Strike – Residency

46th sighting in Salish Sea
Fluke of Strike
Strike Confirmed in the catalog @7245
May 24 – Oct 16, 2026 · Salish Sea

Green Water, Good Company

Herring balls thick, faces everywhere I turn — this water still teaches me things.

133 m
Deepest dive
3:07
Longest dive
96
Dives
Sightings
10
Days between first and last sighting
144

Dive stats modelled within real depth limits — not measured

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SightingSeafloorSea tempDeepest dive (modelled)
May 24, 202694 m10.5°C64 m
May 28, 202619 m10.8°C17 m
Jun 5, 202697 m10.7°C62 m
Jun 14, 202683 m13.2°C51 m
Jun 19, 2026128 m15.8°C50 m
Jun 23, 2026150 m16.0°C76 m
Jul 1, 2026123 m12.3°C60 m
Jul 15, 2026301 m15.8°C133 m
Oct 12, 2026100 m11.2°C82 m
Oct 16, 202686 m11.9°C69 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 24, 2026 — seafloor 94 m (measured), deepest dive 64 m (modelled)May 24May 28, 2026 — seafloor 19 m (measured), deepest dive 17 m (modelled)May 28Jun 5, 2026 — seafloor 97 m (measured), deepest dive 62 m (modelled)Jun 5Jun 14, 2026 — seafloor 83 m (measured), deepest dive 51 m (modelled)Jun 14Jun 19, 2026 — seafloor 128 m (measured), deepest dive 50 m (modelled)Jun 19Jun 23, 2026 — seafloor 150 m (measured), deepest dive 76 m (modelled)Jun 23Jul 1, 2026 — seafloor 123 m (measured), deepest dive 60 m (modelled)Jul 1Jul 15, 2026 — seafloor 301 m (measured), deepest dive 133 m (modelled)Jul 15Oct 12, 2026 — seafloor 100 m (measured), deepest dive 82 m (modelled)Oct 12Oct 16, 2026 — seafloor 86 m (measured), deepest dive 69 m (modelled)Oct 16

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

Dives

133 m
Deepest dive
3:07
Longest dive
96
Dives
26 m
Avg dive depth
10
Sightings
144
Days first → last

Dive metrics are modelled within real depth limits — not measured

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Dive profile

modelled
075150133 mstartdive sequence (illustrative)

Depth shaped by the seafloor limit here (301 m) and the published dive-behaviour distribution. Modelled, not measured.

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Depth, duration and recovery resolved into a single number for this session.

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Place

Where this happened · Jul 15, 2026

measured
Seafloor depth
301 m
Sea-surface temperature
15.8°C
Distance from shore
12.0 km

Across the residency · 10 sightings

measured
Seafloor depth
19 m – 301 m
Sea-surface temperature
10.5°C – 16.0°C
Distance from shore
1.0 km – 12.0 km

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

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Source records

This activity is assembled from 10 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).

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