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Glacier Bay & Icy Strait

Vader – Residency

5th sighting in Glacier Bay & Icy Strait
Fluke of Vader
Vader Confirmed in the catalog @13340
Aug 5 – Oct 6, 2020 · Glacier Bay & Icy Strait

Glacier Bay & Icy Strait · Aug – Oct 2020

87 m
Deepest dive
3:57
Longest dive
59
Dives
Sightings
5
Days between first and last sighting
62

Dive stats modelled within real depth limits — not measured

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SightingSeafloorSea tempDeepest dive (modelled)
Aug 5, 2020175 m—52 m
Aug 22, 2020201 m—87 m
Sep 7, 2020196 m—75 m
Sep 15, 2020295 m—72 m
Oct 6, 202057 m—47 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 5, 2020 — seafloor 175 m (measured), deepest dive 52 m (modelled)Aug 5Aug 22, 2020 — seafloor 201 m (measured), deepest dive 87 m (modelled)Aug 22Sep 7, 2020 — seafloor 196 m (measured), deepest dive 75 m (modelled)Sep 7Sep 15, 2020 — seafloor 295 m (measured), deepest dive 72 m (modelled)Sep 15Oct 6, 2020 — seafloor 57 m (measured), deepest dive 47 m (modelled)Oct 6

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

Dives

87 m
Deepest dive
3:57
Longest dive
59
Dives
27 m
Avg dive depth
5
Sightings
62
Days first → last

Dive metrics are modelled within real depth limits — not measured

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Dive profile

modelled
05010087 mstartdive sequence (illustrative)

Depth shaped by the seafloor limit here (201 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 · Aug 22, 2020

measured
Seafloor depth
201 m
Sea-surface temperature
—
Distance from shore
3.0 km

Across the residency · 5 sightings

measured
Seafloor depth
57 m – 295 m
Sea-surface temperature
—
Distance from shore
1.0 km – 3.0 km

Sources: GEBCO seafloor grid · PacIOOS coastline distance

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Source records

This activity is assembled from 5 catalogued encounters on Happywhale.

Sighting records from Happywhale, published as occurrence data via GBIF. Individual records are licensed CC0 1.0, CC BY 4.0 or CC BY-NC 4.0, depending on the contributor.

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