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Salish Sea

Bandit – Residency

16th sighting in Salish Sea
Fluke of Bandit
Bandit Confirmed in the catalog @73855
Jun 5 – Jul 26, 2026 · Salish Sea

Green Water, Old Friends

Herring stacked up on the shelf again this year, and I remembered every channel to get there.

109 m
Deepest dive
4:13
Longest dive
27
Dives
Sightings
5
Days between first and last sighting
50

Dive stats modelled within real depth limits — not measured

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SightingSeafloorSea tempDeepest dive (modelled)
Jun 5, 2026170 m10.5°C109 m
Jun 6, 2026144 m10.4°C33 m
Jun 7, 2026122 m10.5°C93 m
Jun 19, 2026166 m15.2°C25 m
Jul 26, 2026141 m15.8°C106 m

Seafloor and sea temperature measured · ✳ dives modelled

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Deepest dive against the seafloor, per sighting

Seafloor · measured Deepest dive · modelled
Jun 5, 2026 — seafloor 170 m (measured), deepest dive 109 m (modelled)Jun 5Jun 6, 2026 — seafloor 144 m (measured), deepest dive 33 m (modelled)Jun 6Jun 7, 2026 — seafloor 122 m (measured), deepest dive 93 m (modelled)Jun 7Jun 19, 2026 — seafloor 166 m (measured), deepest dive 25 m (modelled)Jun 19Jul 26, 2026 — seafloor 141 m (measured), deepest dive 106 m (modelled)Jul 26

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

Dives

109 m
Deepest dive
4:13
Longest dive
27
Dives
27 m
Avg dive depth
5
Sightings
50
Days first → last

Dive metrics are modelled within real depth limits — not measured

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Dive profile

modelled
075150109 mstartdive sequence (illustrative)

Depth shaped by the seafloor limit here (170 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 · Jun 5, 2026

measured
Seafloor depth
170 m
Sea-surface temperature
10.5°C
Distance from shore
6.0 km

Across the residency · 5 sightings

measured
Seafloor depth
122 m – 170 m
Sea-surface temperature
10.4°C – 15.8°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 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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