Get Underwater Harbor Seal Swimming Background. Harbor seals have a streamlined body and strong muscles that enable them to swim with speed and grace; A harbor seal observed swimming through the kelp just offshore of lime kiln lighthouse (wa, usa).

A Harp Seal Pup Learns To Swim Photograph By David Doubilet
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It can swim a fast 15 knots. 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. They can sleep underwater and come up for air.

It gradually loses it hair in patches.

«harbour seal swimming in the shallows in a small bay in northern svalbard. A harbor seal's hearing is almost 14 times greater under water. It gradually loses it hair in patches. Three seals on rocks with one swimming.