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Kenai Fjords & Resurrection Bay

Patches – Residency

38th sighting in Kenai Fjords & Resurrection Bay
Fluke of Patches
Patches Confirmed in the catalog @13435
Jul 5 – 26, 2025 · Kenai Fjords & Resurrection Bay

Kenai Fjords & Resurrection Bay · Jul 2025

136 m
Deepest dive
4:18
Longest dive
87
Dives
Sightings
10
Days between first and last sighting
21

Dive stats modelled within real depth limits — not measured

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SightingSeafloorSea tempDeepest dive (modelled)
Jul 5, 202580 m11.9°C56 m
Jul 7, 202556 m12.3°C41 m
Jul 8, 202556 m12.1°C23 m
Jul 9, 202579 m12.2°C70 m
Jul 11, 202543 m12.3°C28 m
Jul 12, 202562 m12.3°C50 m
Jul 13, 202553 m12.4°C48 m
Jul 14, 202562 m12.5°C18 m
Jul 15, 202552 m12.6°C48 m
Jul 26, 2025289 m13.6°C136 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 5, 2025 — seafloor 80 m (measured), deepest dive 56 m (modelled)Jul 5Jul 7, 2025 — seafloor 56 m (measured), deepest dive 41 m (modelled)Jul 7Jul 8, 2025 — seafloor 56 m (measured), deepest dive 23 m (modelled)Jul 8Jul 9, 2025 — seafloor 79 m (measured), deepest dive 70 m (modelled)Jul 9Jul 11, 2025 — seafloor 43 m (measured), deepest dive 28 m (modelled)Jul 11Jul 12, 2025 — seafloor 62 m (measured), deepest dive 50 m (modelled)Jul 12Jul 13, 2025 — seafloor 53 m (measured), deepest dive 48 m (modelled)Jul 13Jul 14, 2025 — seafloor 62 m (measured), deepest dive 18 m (modelled)Jul 14Jul 15, 2025 — seafloor 52 m (measured), deepest dive 48 m (modelled)Jul 15Jul 26, 2025 — seafloor 289 m (measured), deepest dive 136 m (modelled)Jul 26

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

Dives

136 m
Deepest dive
4:18
Longest dive
87
Dives
19 m
Avg dive depth
10
Sightings
21
Days first → last

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Dive profile

modelled
075150136 mstartdive sequence (illustrative)

Depth shaped by the seafloor limit here (289 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 26, 2025

measured
Seafloor depth
289 m
Sea-surface temperature
13.6°C
Distance from shore
1.0 km

Across the residency · 10 sightings

measured
Seafloor depth
43 m – 289 m
Sea-surface temperature
11.9°C – 13.6°C
Distance from shore
1.0 km – 4.0 km

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

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Source records

This activity is assembled from 10 catalogued encounters on Happywhale.

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