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Salish Sea

2022 calf of Kappa – Residency

23rd sighting in Salish Sea
Fluke of 2022 calf of Kappa
2022 calf of Kappa Confirmed in the catalog @92034
May 31 – Sep 14, 2026 · Salish Sea

Every Bend by Heart

Summer here just gets easier, this water knows me now.

98 m
Deepest dive
4:09
Longest dive
75
Dives
Sightings
8
Days between first and last sighting
105

Dive stats modelled within real depth limits — not measured

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SightingSeafloorSea tempDeepest dive (modelled)
May 31, 2026241 m12.1°C70 m
Jun 4, 2026399 m15.9°C48 m
Jun 24, 2026381 m17.7°C29 m
Aug 6, 20268 m15.6°C6 m
Aug 15, 2026113 m16.3°C98 m
Sep 1, 20264 m16.2°C4 m
Sep 12, 20264 m15.0°C4 m
Sep 14, 202653 m15.0°C44 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 31, 2026 — seafloor 241 m (measured), deepest dive 70 m (modelled)May 31Jun 4, 2026 — seafloor 399 m (measured), deepest dive 48 m (modelled)Jun 4Jun 24, 2026 — seafloor 381 m (measured), deepest dive 29 m (modelled)Jun 24Aug 6, 2026 — seafloor 8 m (measured), deepest dive 6 m (modelled)Aug 6Aug 15, 2026 — seafloor 113 m (measured), deepest dive 98 m (modelled)Aug 15Sep 1, 2026 — seafloor 4 m (measured), deepest dive 4 m (modelled)Sep 1Sep 12, 2026 — seafloor 4 m (measured), deepest dive 4 m (modelled)Sep 12Sep 14, 2026 — seafloor 53 m (measured), deepest dive 44 m (modelled)Sep 14

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

Dives

98 m
Deepest dive
4:09
Longest dive
75
Dives
17 m
Avg dive depth
8
Sightings
105
Days first → last

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Dive profile

modelled
05010098 mstartdive sequence (illustrative)

Depth shaped by the seafloor limit here (113 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 15, 2026

measured
Seafloor depth
113 m
Sea-surface temperature
16.3°C
Distance from shore
4.0 km

Across the residency · 8 sightings

measured
Seafloor depth
4 m – 399 m
Sea-surface temperature
12.1°C – 17.7°C
Distance from shore
1.0 km – 10.0 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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