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Salish Sea

Spotlight – Residency

26th sighting in Salish Sea
Fluke of Spotlight
Spotlight Confirmed in the catalog @7585
Jul 22 – Oct 5, 2025 · Salish Sea

Salish Sea · Jul – Oct 2025

135 m
Deepest dive
4:35
Longest dive
78
Dives
Sightings
9
Days between first and last sighting
75
Deepest dive on record
135 m · this residency

Dive stats modelled within real depth limits — not measured

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SightingSeafloorSea tempDeepest dive (modelled)
Jul 22, 2025204 m15.4°C102 m
Jul 23, 202567 m15.3°C51 m
Jul 27, 2025154 m14.8°C72 m
Jul 31, 2025190 m18.4°C135 m
Aug 7, 2025257 m14.4°C60 m
Aug 27, 202560 m16.5°C51 m
Aug 28, 2025141 m16.3°C108 m
Sep 3, 2025157 m15.7°C32 m
Oct 5, 2025262 m13.5°C97 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 22, 2025 — seafloor 204 m (measured), deepest dive 102 m (modelled)Jul 22Jul 23, 2025 — seafloor 67 m (measured), deepest dive 51 m (modelled)Jul 23Jul 27, 2025 — seafloor 154 m (measured), deepest dive 72 m (modelled)Jul 27Jul 31, 2025 — seafloor 190 m (measured), deepest dive 135 m (modelled)Jul 31Aug 7, 2025 — seafloor 257 m (measured), deepest dive 60 m (modelled)Aug 7Aug 27, 2025 — seafloor 60 m (measured), deepest dive 51 m (modelled)Aug 27Aug 28, 2025 — seafloor 141 m (measured), deepest dive 108 m (modelled)Aug 28Sep 3, 2025 — seafloor 157 m (measured), deepest dive 32 m (modelled)Sep 3Oct 5, 2025 — seafloor 262 m (measured), deepest dive 97 m (modelled)Oct 5

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

Dives

135 m
Deepest dive
4:35
Longest dive
78
Dives
29 m
Avg dive depth
9
Sightings
75
Days first → last

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Dive profile

modelled
075150135 mstartdive sequence (illustrative)

Depth shaped by the seafloor limit here (190 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, 2025

measured
Seafloor depth
190 m
Sea-surface temperature
18.4°C
Distance from shore
2.0 km

Across the residency · 9 sightings

measured
Seafloor depth
60 m – 262 m
Sea-surface temperature
13.5°C – 18.4°C
Distance from shore
2.0 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 9 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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