View Underwater Harbor Seal Swimming Pics. They can sleep underwater and come up for air. Seals have large eyes adapted to enable them to see well in low light.

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However, the average dive is a few minutes long and 91 m deep. Harbor seals can swim up to 12 miles per hour (19 kph)! They can also dive for up to 2 minutes when they are only 2 to 3 days old.

The harbor seal is probably the most widely known using underwater vocalizations, they defend their territories against other males and display to females traveling through the area.

Please help me by posting all of your underwater photos of seals here. Pup can swim at birth and sometimes rides on its mother's back. A harbor seal observed swimming through the kelp just offshore of lime kiln lighthouse (wa, usa). There are several subspecies, such as the pacific harbour seal, phoca vitulina richardsi, which inhabit the b.c.