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Kenai Fjords & Resurrection Bay

Sickle – Residency

16th sighting in Kenai Fjords & Resurrection Bay
Fluke of Sickle
Sickle Confirmed in the catalog @13737
Jul 10 – 13, 2026 · Kenai Fjords & Resurrection Bay

Herring, Long Light, July

Found the herring running thick and just kept feasting.

65 m
Deepest dive
2:49
Longest dive
51
Dives
Sightings
3
Days between first and last sighting
3

Dive stats modelled within real depth limits — not measured

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SightingSeafloorSea tempDeepest dive (modelled)
Jul 10, 2026153 m11.5°C65 m
Jul 11, 202683 m11.5°C64 m
Jul 13, 202650 m12.2°C40 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 10, 2026 — seafloor 153 m (measured), deepest dive 65 m (modelled)Jul 10Jul 11, 2026 — seafloor 83 m (measured), deepest dive 64 m (modelled)Jul 11Jul 13, 2026 — seafloor 50 m (measured), deepest dive 40 m (modelled)Jul 13

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

Dives

65 m
Deepest dive
2:49
Longest dive
51
Dives
19 m
Avg dive depth
3
Sightings
3
Days first → last

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Dive profile

modelled
05010065 mstartdive sequence (illustrative)

Depth shaped by the seafloor limit here (153 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 10, 2026

measured
Seafloor depth
153 m
Sea-surface temperature
11.5°C
Distance from shore
1.0 km

Across the residency · 3 sightings

measured
Seafloor depth
50 m – 153 m
Sea-surface temperature
11.5°C – 12.2°C
Distance from shore
1.0 km – 2.0 km

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

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Source records

This activity is assembled from 3 catalogued encounters on Happywhale.

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