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Salish Sea

Spotlight – Residency

34th sighting in Salish Sea
Fluke of Spotlight
Spotlight Confirmed in the catalog @7585
Jun 21 – Aug 23, 2026 · Salish Sea

Home Waters, Every Herring Line

Every kelp point knew my blow before I surfaced this summer.

117 m
Deepest dive
4:21
Longest dive
86
Dives
Sightings
8
Days between first and last sighting
63

Dive stats modelled within real depth limits — not measured

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SightingSeafloorSea tempDeepest dive (modelled)
Jun 21, 202682 m14.6°C33 m
Jun 23, 2026236 m14.5°C109 m
Jul 10, 2026171 m13.6°C77 m
Jul 19, 2026134 m14.9°C92 m
Jul 22, 2026251 m18.2°C68 m
Jul 29, 2026156 m14.5°C117 m
Jul 30, 202680 m14.7°C49 m
Aug 23, 2026134 m14.6°C35 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 21, 2026 — seafloor 82 m (measured), deepest dive 33 m (modelled)Jun 21Jun 23, 2026 — seafloor 236 m (measured), deepest dive 109 m (modelled)Jun 23Jul 10, 2026 — seafloor 171 m (measured), deepest dive 77 m (modelled)Jul 10Jul 19, 2026 — seafloor 134 m (measured), deepest dive 92 m (modelled)Jul 19Jul 22, 2026 — seafloor 251 m (measured), deepest dive 68 m (modelled)Jul 22Jul 29, 2026 — seafloor 156 m (measured), deepest dive 117 m (modelled)Jul 29Jul 30, 2026 — seafloor 80 m (measured), deepest dive 49 m (modelled)Jul 30Aug 23, 2026 — seafloor 134 m (measured), deepest dive 35 m (modelled)Aug 23

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

Dives

117 m
Deepest dive
4:21
Longest dive
86
Dives
26 m
Avg dive depth
8
Sightings
63
Days first → last

Dive metrics are modelled within real depth limits — not measured

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Dive profile

modelled
075150117 mstartdive sequence (illustrative)

Depth shaped by the seafloor limit here (156 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 29, 2026

measured
Seafloor depth
156 m
Sea-surface temperature
14.5°C
Distance from shore
4.0 km

Across the residency · 8 sightings

measured
Seafloor depth
80 m – 251 m
Sea-surface temperature
13.6°C – 18.2°C
Distance from shore
1.0 km – 6.0 km

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

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Source records

This activity is assembled from 8 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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