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Glacier Bay & Icy Strait

Manta – Residency

28th sighting in Glacier Bay & Icy Strait
Fluke of Manta
Manta Confirmed in the catalog @16810
May 23 – Sep 21, 2023 · Glacier Bay & Icy Strait

Glacier Bay & Icy Strait · May – Sep 2023

123 m
Deepest dive
4:04
Longest dive
82
Dives
Sightings
9
Days between first and last sighting
121

Dive stats modelled within real depth limits — not measured

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SightingSeafloorSea tempDeepest dive (modelled)
May 23, 2023110 m8.6°C88 m
Jun 26, 202391 m12.6°C52 m
Jun 30, 202379 m10.4°C73 m
Jul 11, 202365 m9.9°C45 m
Jul 20, 2023325 m14.6°C123 m
Aug 6, 202341 m15.6°C35 m
Aug 6, 2023109 m16.0°C68 m
Sep 13, 202374 m12.0°C54 m
Sep 21, 202383 m10.2°C31 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 23, 2023 — seafloor 110 m (measured), deepest dive 88 m (modelled)May 23Jun 26, 2023 — seafloor 91 m (measured), deepest dive 52 m (modelled)Jun 26Jun 30, 2023 — seafloor 79 m (measured), deepest dive 73 m (modelled)Jun 30Jul 11, 2023 — seafloor 65 m (measured), deepest dive 45 m (modelled)Jul 11Jul 20, 2023 — seafloor 325 m (measured), deepest dive 123 m (modelled)Jul 20Aug 6, 2023 — seafloor 41 m (measured), deepest dive 35 m (modelled)Aug 6Aug 6, 2023 — seafloor 109 m (measured), deepest dive 68 m (modelled)Aug 6Sep 13, 2023 — seafloor 74 m (measured), deepest dive 54 m (modelled)Sep 13Sep 21, 2023 — seafloor 83 m (measured), deepest dive 31 m (modelled)Sep 21

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

Dives

123 m
Deepest dive
4:04
Longest dive
82
Dives
27 m
Avg dive depth
9
Sightings
121
Days first → last

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Dive profile

modelled
075150123 mstartdive sequence (illustrative)

Depth shaped by the seafloor limit here (325 m) and the published dive-behaviour distribution. Modelled, not measured.

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Deep

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Place

Where this happened · Jul 20, 2023

measured
Seafloor depth
325 m
Sea-surface temperature
14.6°C
Distance from shore
4.0 km

Across the residency · 9 sightings

measured
Seafloor depth
41 m – 325 m
Sea-surface temperature
8.6°C – 16.0°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 9 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.

The photographs and fluke identifications behind every sighting are the work of the contributing observers — the citizen scientists, naturalists and operators who logged them, each named in the underlying GBIF occurrence record. Every activity links out to its source encounters on Happywhale. Basemaps © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL).

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