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Salish Sea

Kaju – Residency

12th sighting in Salish Sea
Fluke of Kaju
Kaju Confirmed in the catalog @80340
Aug 19 – Sep 25, 2025 · Salish Sea

Salish Sea · Aug – Sep 2025

131 m
Deepest dive
5:37
Longest dive
47
Dives
Sightings
4
Days between first and last sighting
37

Dive stats modelled within real depth limits — not measured

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SightingSeafloorSea tempDeepest dive (modelled)
Aug 19, 2025163 m14.8°C131 m
Aug 19, 2025159 m14.8°C113 m
Aug 22, 2025145 m14.5°C88 m
Sep 25, 2025190 m13.6°C78 m

Seafloor and sea temperature measured · ✳ dives modelled

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Deepest dive against the seafloor, per sighting

Seafloor · measured Deepest dive · modelled
Aug 19, 2025 — seafloor 163 m (measured), deepest dive 131 m (modelled)Aug 19Aug 19, 2025 — seafloor 159 m (measured), deepest dive 113 m (modelled)Aug 19Aug 22, 2025 — seafloor 145 m (measured), deepest dive 88 m (modelled)Aug 22Sep 25, 2025 — seafloor 190 m (measured), deepest dive 78 m (modelled)Sep 25

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

Dives

131 m
Deepest dive
5:37
Longest dive
47
Dives
34 m
Avg dive depth
4
Sightings
37
Days first → last

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Dive profile

modelled
075150131 mstartdive sequence (illustrative)

Depth shaped by the seafloor limit here (163 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 19, 2025

measured
Seafloor depth
163 m
Sea-surface temperature
14.8°C
Distance from shore
11.0 km

Across the residency · 4 sightings

measured
Seafloor depth
145 m – 190 m
Sea-surface temperature
13.6°C – 14.8°C
Distance from shore
2.0 km – 11.0 km

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

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Source records

This activity is assembled from 4 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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