Butterfly Wings – Residency
6th sighting in Salish Sea
Butterfly Wings @80343
Jul 30 – Aug 10, 2025 · Salish Sea
Salish Sea · Jul – Aug 2025
50 m
Deepest dive
2:14
Longest dive
30
Dives
- Sightings
- 4
- Days between first and last sighting
- 11
Dive stats modelled within real depth limits — not measured
Get actual dive data with Risa Deep →| Sighting | Seafloor | Sea temp | Deepest dive (modelled) |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 30, 2025 | 64 m | — | 36 m |
| Aug 9, 2025 | 55 m | — | 50 m |
| Aug 9, 2025 | 29 m | — | 25 m |
| Aug 10, 2025 | 180 m | — | 34 m |
Seafloor and sea temperature measured · ✳ dives modelled
Deepest dive against the seafloor, per sighting
Seafloor · measured Deepest dive · modelledDepth runs down from the surface. The modelled dive never passes the measured seafloor at that sighting.
Dives
50 m
Deepest dive
2:14
Longest dive
30
Dives
17 m
Avg dive depth
4
Sightings
11
Days first → last
Dive metrics are modelled within real depth limits — not measured
Get actual dive data with Risa Deep →Dive profile
modelledDepth shaped by the seafloor limit here (55 m) and the published dive-behaviour distribution. Modelled, not measured.
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Where this happened · Aug 9, 2025
measured- Seafloor depth
- 55 m
- Sea-surface temperature
- —
- Distance from shore
- —
Across the residency · 4 sightings
measured- Seafloor depth
- 29 m – 180 m
- Sea-surface temperature
- —
- Distance from shore
- 1.0 km – 3.0 km
Sources: GEBCO seafloor grid · PacIOOS coastline distance
Source records
This activity is assembled from 4 catalogued encounters on Happywhale.