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Glacier Bay & Icy Strait

Cotton – Residency

23rd sighting in Glacier Bay & Icy Strait
Fluke of Cotton
Cotton Confirmed in the catalog @13320
Jul 4 – Oct 2, 2025 · Glacier Bay & Icy Strait

Glacier Bay & Icy Strait · Jul – Oct 2025

128 m
Deepest dive
4:43
Longest dive
90
Dives
Sightings
9
Days between first and last sighting
90

Dive stats modelled within real depth limits — not measured

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SightingSeafloorSea tempDeepest dive (modelled)
Jul 4, 202543 m12.3°C35 m
Jul 17, 202586 m12.4°C73 m
Jul 19, 202583 m12.5°C69 m
Jul 27, 2025273 m14.6°C64 m
Jul 29, 2025212 m14.5°C74 m
Jul 30, 2025245 m14.6°C128 m
Aug 11, 2025246 m13.7°C97 m
Sep 28, 2025187 m12.5°C43 m
Oct 2, 202573 m11.6°C42 m

Seafloor and sea temperature measured · ✳ dives modelled

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Deepest dive against the seafloor, per sighting

Seafloor · measured Deepest dive · modelled
Jul 4, 2025 — seafloor 43 m (measured), deepest dive 35 m (modelled)Jul 4Jul 17, 2025 — seafloor 86 m (measured), deepest dive 73 m (modelled)Jul 17Jul 19, 2025 — seafloor 83 m (measured), deepest dive 69 m (modelled)Jul 19Jul 27, 2025 — seafloor 273 m (measured), deepest dive 64 m (modelled)Jul 27Jul 29, 2025 — seafloor 212 m (measured), deepest dive 74 m (modelled)Jul 29Jul 30, 2025 — seafloor 245 m (measured), deepest dive 128 m (modelled)Jul 30Aug 11, 2025 — seafloor 246 m (measured), deepest dive 97 m (modelled)Aug 11Sep 28, 2025 — seafloor 187 m (measured), deepest dive 43 m (modelled)Sep 28Oct 2, 2025 — seafloor 73 m (measured), deepest dive 42 m (modelled)Oct 2

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

Dives

128 m
Deepest dive
4:43
Longest dive
90
Dives
27 m
Avg dive depth
9
Sightings
90
Days first → last

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Dive profile

modelled
075150128 mstartdive sequence (illustrative)

Depth shaped by the seafloor limit here (245 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 · Jul 30, 2025

measured
Seafloor depth
245 m
Sea-surface temperature
14.6°C
Distance from shore
1.0 km

Across the residency · 9 sightings

measured
Seafloor depth
43 m – 273 m
Sea-surface temperature
11.6°C – 14.6°C
Distance from shore
1.0 km – 3.0 km

Sources: GEBCO seafloor grid · NASA JPL MUR sea temperature · PacIOOS coastline distance

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Source records

This activity is assembled from 9 catalogued encounters on Happywhale.

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