20+ Underwater Harbor Seal Swimming Images. Harbor seal pups can swim at birth. Harbor seals can swim up to 12 miles per hour (19 kph)!

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Post medium sized photos with as much description of your interaction, and your sense of their character as you can muster but sometimes a picture speaks a thousand words. Three seals on rocks with one swimming. The harbor (or harbour) seal (phoca vitulina), also known as the common seal, is a true seal found along temperate and arctic marine coastlines of the northern hemisphere.

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However, the average dive is a few minutes long and 91 m deep. Harbor seals tongass, atuun and kaya swim in slow motion at the oregon zoo. A harbor seal's hearing is almost 14 times greater under water. A harbor seal observed swimming through the kelp just offshore of lime kiln lighthouse (wa, usa).