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North Atlantic

Salamander – Residency

Fluke of Salamander
Salamander Confirmed in the catalog @7332
Jul 7 – Aug 21, 2026 · North Atlantic

Green Water, Right on Time

Fog rolled in, fish were thick, and I felt every good reason to keep coming.

71 m
Deepest dive
2:50
Longest dive
47
Dives
Sightings
3
Days between first and last sighting
45

Dive stats modelled within real depth limits — not measured

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SightingSeafloorSea tempDeepest dive (modelled)
Jul 7, 202691 m13.9°C56 m
Aug 9, 202625 m17.8°C21 m
Aug 21, 202680 m15.3°C71 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 7, 2026 — seafloor 91 m (measured), deepest dive 56 m (modelled)Jul 7Aug 9, 2026 — seafloor 25 m (measured), deepest dive 21 m (modelled)Aug 9Aug 21, 2026 — seafloor 80 m (measured), deepest dive 71 m (modelled)Aug 21

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

Dives

71 m
Deepest dive
2:50
Longest dive
47
Dives
20 m
Avg dive depth
3
Sightings
45
Days first → last

Dive metrics are modelled within real depth limits — not measured

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Dive profile

modelled
05010071 mstartdive sequence (illustrative)

Depth shaped by the seafloor limit here (80 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
80 m
Sea-surface temperature
15.3°C
Distance from shore
3.0 km

Across the residency · 3 sightings

measured
Seafloor depth
25 m – 91 m
Sea-surface temperature
13.9°C – 17.8°C
Distance from shore
2.0 km – 5.0 km

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

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Source records

This activity is assembled from 3 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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