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Glacier Bay & Icy Strait

Chromosome – Residency

8th sighting in Glacier Bay & Icy Strait
Fluke of Chromosome
Chromosome Confirmed in the catalog @15642
May 27 – Sep 28, 2023 · Glacier Bay & Icy Strait

Glacier Bay & Icy Strait · May – Sep 2023

93 m
Deepest dive
4:15
Longest dive
35
Dives
Sightings
4
Days between first and last sighting
124

Dive stats modelled within real depth limits — not measured

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SightingSeafloorSea tempDeepest dive (modelled)
May 27, 202372 m8.5°C63 m
Jul 4, 202336 m11.9°C27 m
Jul 4, 202355 m12.1°C40 m
Sep 28, 2023132 m10.0°C93 m

Seafloor and sea temperature measured · ✳ dives modelled

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Deepest dive against the seafloor, per sighting

Seafloor · measured Deepest dive · modelled
May 27, 2023 — seafloor 72 m (measured), deepest dive 63 m (modelled)May 27Jul 4, 2023 — seafloor 36 m (measured), deepest dive 27 m (modelled)Jul 4Jul 4, 2023 — seafloor 55 m (measured), deepest dive 40 m (modelled)Jul 4Sep 28, 2023 — seafloor 132 m (measured), deepest dive 93 m (modelled)Sep 28

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

Dives

93 m
Deepest dive
4:15
Longest dive
35
Dives
20 m
Avg dive depth
4
Sightings
124
Days first → last

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Dive profile

modelled
05010093 mstartdive sequence (illustrative)

Depth shaped by the seafloor limit here (132 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 · Sep 28, 2023

measured
Seafloor depth
132 m
Sea-surface temperature
10.0°C
Distance from shore
1.0 km

Across the residency · 4 sightings

measured
Seafloor depth
36 m – 132 m
Sea-surface temperature
8.5°C – 12.1°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 4 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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