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Kenai Fjords & Resurrection Bay

Patches – Residency

50th sighting in Kenai Fjords & Resurrection Bay
Fluke of Patches
Patches Confirmed in the catalog @13435
Jun 20 – Jul 16, 2026 · Kenai Fjords & Resurrection Bay

Sound Full of Faces

Weeks of nets and cold water, this crew still knows my rhythm.

113 m
Deepest dive
3:28
Longest dive
195
Dives
Sightings
13
Days between first and last sighting
26

Dive stats modelled within real depth limits — not measured

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SightingSeafloorSea tempDeepest dive (modelled)
Jun 20, 202695 m8.5°C85 m
Jun 21, 202693 m8.7°C70 m
Jun 22, 2026141 m9.1°C67 m
Jun 23, 2026102 m9.8°C55 m
Jun 24, 2026181 m10.0°C113 m
Jun 27, 202684 m10.6°C75 m
Jul 9, 202643 m11.3°C30 m
Jul 10, 202680 m11.3°C69 m
Jul 11, 202688 m11.5°C28 m
Jul 12, 202673 m12.0°C55 m
Jul 13, 202653 m12.2°C47 m
Jul 15, 202682 m11.2°C64 m
Jul 16, 2026153 m11.2°C81 m

Seafloor and sea temperature measured · ✳ dives modelled

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Deepest dive against the seafloor, per sighting

Seafloor · measured Deepest dive · modelled
Jun 20, 2026 — seafloor 95 m (measured), deepest dive 85 m (modelled)Jun 20Jun 21, 2026 — seafloor 93 m (measured), deepest dive 70 m (modelled)Jun 22, 2026 — seafloor 141 m (measured), deepest dive 67 m (modelled)Jun 23, 2026 — seafloor 102 m (measured), deepest dive 55 m (modelled)Jun 23Jun 24, 2026 — seafloor 181 m (measured), deepest dive 113 m (modelled)Jun 27, 2026 — seafloor 84 m (measured), deepest dive 75 m (modelled)Jul 9, 2026 — seafloor 43 m (measured), deepest dive 30 m (modelled)Jul 9Jul 10, 2026 — seafloor 80 m (measured), deepest dive 69 m (modelled)Jul 11, 2026 — seafloor 88 m (measured), deepest dive 28 m (modelled)Jul 12, 2026 — seafloor 73 m (measured), deepest dive 55 m (modelled)Jul 12Jul 13, 2026 — seafloor 53 m (measured), deepest dive 47 m (modelled)Jul 15, 2026 — seafloor 82 m (measured), deepest dive 64 m (modelled)Jul 16, 2026 — seafloor 153 m (measured), deepest dive 81 m (modelled)Jul 16

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

Dives

113 m
Deepest dive
3:28
Longest dive
195
Dives
25 m
Avg dive depth
13
Sightings
26
Days first → last

Dive metrics are modelled within real depth limits — not measured

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Dive profile

modelled
075150113 mstartdive sequence (illustrative)

Depth shaped by the seafloor limit here (181 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 · Jun 24, 2026

measured
Seafloor depth
181 m
Sea-surface temperature
10.0°C
Distance from shore
3.0 km

Across the residency · 13 sightings

measured
Seafloor depth
43 m – 181 m
Sea-surface temperature
8.5°C – 12.2°C
Distance from shore
1.0 km – 6.0 km

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

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Source records

This activity is assembled from 13 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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