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Salish Sea

CRC-20797 – Residency

15th sighting in Salish Sea
Fluke of CRC-20797
CRC-20797 Confirmed in the catalog @83112
May 24 – Aug 5, 2026 · Salish Sea

Green Water, Good Company

Bait stacked up thick, faces changing, this channel never runs short on company.

128 m
Deepest dive
4:24
Longest dive
34
Dives
Sightings
5
Days between first and last sighting
72
Deepest dive on record
128 m · this residency

Dive stats modelled within real depth limits — not measured

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SightingSeafloorSea tempDeepest dive (modelled)
May 24, 202640 m12.6°C15 m
Jul 2, 2026171 m12.8°C128 m
Jul 19, 202695 m13.8°C87 m
Jul 25, 2026173 m14.8°C66 m
Aug 5, 202684 m14.5°C56 m

Seafloor and sea temperature measured · ✳ dives modelled

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Deepest dive against the seafloor, per sighting

Seafloor · measured Deepest dive · modelled
May 24, 2026 — seafloor 40 m (measured), deepest dive 15 m (modelled)May 24Jul 2, 2026 — seafloor 171 m (measured), deepest dive 128 m (modelled)Jul 2Jul 19, 2026 — seafloor 95 m (measured), deepest dive 87 m (modelled)Jul 19Jul 25, 2026 — seafloor 173 m (measured), deepest dive 66 m (modelled)Jul 25Aug 5, 2026 — seafloor 84 m (measured), deepest dive 56 m (modelled)Aug 5

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

Dives

128 m
Deepest dive
4:24
Longest dive
34
Dives
32 m
Avg dive depth
5
Sightings
72
Days first → last

Dive metrics are modelled within real depth limits — not measured

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Dive profile

modelled
075150128 mstartdive sequence (illustrative)

Depth shaped by the seafloor limit here (171 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 2, 2026

measured
Seafloor depth
171 m
Sea-surface temperature
12.8°C
Distance from shore
6.0 km

Across the residency · 5 sightings

measured
Seafloor depth
40 m – 173 m
Sea-surface temperature
12.6°C – 14.8°C
Distance from shore
3.0 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 5 catalogued encounters on Happywhale.

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