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Glacier Bay & Icy Strait

WappiSimba – Residency

2nd sighting in Glacier Bay & Icy Strait
Fluke of WappiSimba
WappiSimba Confirmed in the catalog @15623
Jul 10 – 27, 2017 · Glacier Bay & Icy Strait

Glacier Bay & Icy Strait · Jul 2017

92 m
Deepest dive
3:37
Longest dive
26
Dives
Sightings
3
Days between first and last sighting
18

Dive stats modelled within real depth limits — not measured

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SightingSeafloorSea tempDeepest dive (modelled)
Jul 10, 2017492 m10.3°C80 m
Jul 26, 2017186 m11.8°C92 m
Jul 27, 2017145 m12.2°C44 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, 2017 — seafloor 492 m (measured), deepest dive 80 m (modelled)Jul 10Jul 26, 2017 — seafloor 186 m (measured), deepest dive 92 m (modelled)Jul 26Jul 27, 2017 — seafloor 145 m (measured), deepest dive 44 m (modelled)Jul 27

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

Dives

92 m
Deepest dive
3:37
Longest dive
26
Dives
29 m
Avg dive depth
3
Sightings
18
Days first → last

Dive metrics are modelled within real depth limits — not measured

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Dive profile

modelled
05010092 mstartdive sequence (illustrative)

Depth shaped by the seafloor limit here (186 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, 2017

measured
Seafloor depth
186 m
Sea-surface temperature
11.8°C
Distance from shore
—

Across the residency · 3 sightings

measured
Seafloor depth
145 m – 492 m
Sea-surface temperature
10.3°C – 12.2°C
Distance from shore
1.0 km – 5.0 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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