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Glacier Bay & Icy Strait

Manta – Residency

6th sighting in Glacier Bay & Icy Strait
Fluke of Manta
Manta Confirmed in the catalog @16810
Jun 13 – Sep 16, 2019 · Glacier Bay & Icy Strait

Glacier Bay & Icy Strait · Jun – Sep 2019

212 m
Deepest dive
7:13
Longest dive
48
Dives
Sightings
4
Days between first and last sighting
95

Dive stats modelled within real depth limits — not measured

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SightingSeafloorSea tempDeepest dive (modelled)
Jun 13, 2019250 m10.7°C212 m
Aug 15, 2019151 m14.0°C58 m
Sep 15, 2019209 m12.1°C115 m
Sep 16, 2019214 m12.3°C113 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 13, 2019 — seafloor 250 m (measured), deepest dive 212 m (modelled)Jun 13Aug 15, 2019 — seafloor 151 m (measured), deepest dive 58 m (modelled)Aug 15Sep 15, 2019 — seafloor 209 m (measured), deepest dive 115 m (modelled)Sep 15Sep 16, 2019 — seafloor 214 m (measured), deepest dive 113 m (modelled)Sep 16

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

Dives

212 m
Deepest dive
7:13
Longest dive
48
Dives
39 m
Avg dive depth
4
Sightings
95
Days first → last

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Dive profile

modelled
0125250212 mstartdive sequence (illustrative)

Depth shaped by the seafloor limit here (250 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 13, 2019

measured
Seafloor depth
250 m
Sea-surface temperature
10.7°C
Distance from shore
2.0 km

Across the residency · 4 sightings

measured
Seafloor depth
151 m – 250 m
Sea-surface temperature
10.7°C – 14.0°C
Distance from shore
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.

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