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Glacier Bay & Icy Strait

Papercut – Residency

6th sighting in Glacier Bay & Icy Strait
Fluke of Papercut
Papercut Confirmed in the catalog @10959
Aug 26 – Oct 10, 2026 · Glacier Bay & Icy Strait

Icy Strait Herring Run

Shallow water, thick herring, easy work near the ice this month.

110 m
Deepest dive
4:11
Longest dive
56
Dives
Sightings
6
Days between first and last sighting
45

Dive stats modelled within real depth limits — not measured

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SightingSeafloorSea tempDeepest dive (modelled)
Aug 26, 202672 m13.9°C55 m
Aug 27, 2026103 m13.8°C68 m
Aug 28, 202688 m13.8°C39 m
Aug 29, 202688 m13.9°C40 m
Aug 30, 202687 m14.1°C50 m
Oct 10, 2026142 m—110 m

Seafloor and sea temperature measured · ✳ dives modelled

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Deepest dive against the seafloor, per sighting

Seafloor · measured Deepest dive · modelled
Aug 26, 2026 — seafloor 72 m (measured), deepest dive 55 m (modelled)Aug 26Aug 27, 2026 — seafloor 103 m (measured), deepest dive 68 m (modelled)Aug 27Aug 28, 2026 — seafloor 88 m (measured), deepest dive 39 m (modelled)Aug 28Aug 29, 2026 — seafloor 88 m (measured), deepest dive 40 m (modelled)Aug 29Aug 30, 2026 — seafloor 87 m (measured), deepest dive 50 m (modelled)Aug 30Oct 10, 2026 — seafloor 142 m (measured), deepest dive 110 m (modelled)Oct 10

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

Dives

110 m
Deepest dive
4:11
Longest dive
56
Dives
25 m
Avg dive depth
6
Sightings
45
Days first → last

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Dive profile

modelled
075150110 mstartdive sequence (illustrative)

Depth shaped by the seafloor limit here (142 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 · Oct 10, 2026

measured
Seafloor depth
142 m
Sea-surface temperature
—
Distance from shore
1.0 km

Across the residency · 6 sightings

measured
Seafloor depth
72 m – 142 m
Sea-surface temperature
13.8°C – 14.1°C
Distance from shore
1.0 km – 2.0 km

Sources: GEBCO seafloor grid · PacIOOS coastline distance

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Source records

This activity is assembled from 6 catalogued encounters on Happywhale.

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