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Salish Sea

CRC-21556 – Residency

5th sighting in Salish Sea
Fluke of CRC-21556
CRC-21556 Confirmed in the catalog @97884
Sep 5 – 21, 2026 · Salish Sea

September in the Green Water

Cold channel, full mouth, plenty of company this autumn.

84 m
Deepest dive
3:25
Longest dive
32
Dives
Sightings
3
Days between first and last sighting
16

Dive stats modelled within real depth limits — not measured

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SightingSeafloorSea tempDeepest dive (modelled)
Sep 5, 2026109 m—84 m
Sep 8, 202697 m—63 m
Sep 21, 2026137 m—34 m

Seafloor and sea temperature measured · ✳ dives modelled

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Deepest dive against the seafloor, per sighting

Seafloor · measured Deepest dive · modelled
Sep 5, 2026 — seafloor 109 m (measured), deepest dive 84 m (modelled)Sep 5Sep 8, 2026 — seafloor 97 m (measured), deepest dive 63 m (modelled)Sep 8Sep 21, 2026 — seafloor 137 m (measured), deepest dive 34 m (modelled)Sep 21

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

Dives

84 m
Deepest dive
3:25
Longest dive
32
Dives
26 m
Avg dive depth
3
Sightings
16
Days first → last

Dive metrics are modelled within real depth limits — not measured

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Dive profile

modelled
05010084 mstartdive sequence (illustrative)

Depth shaped by the seafloor limit here (109 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 · Sep 5, 2026

measured
Seafloor depth
109 m
Sea-surface temperature
—
Distance from shore
5.0 km

Across the residency · 3 sightings

measured
Seafloor depth
97 m – 137 m
Sea-surface temperature
—
Distance from shore
4.0 km – 5.0 km

Sources: GEBCO seafloor grid · PacIOOS coastline distance

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Source records

This activity is assembled from 3 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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