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Glacier Bay & Icy Strait

Manta – Residency

10th sighting in Glacier Bay & Icy Strait
Fluke of Manta
Manta Confirmed in the catalog @16810
Aug 13 – 29, 2020 · Glacier Bay & Icy Strait

Glacier Bay & Icy Strait · Aug 2020

79 m
Deepest dive
2:56
Longest dive
59
Dives
Sightings
4
Days between first and last sighting
16

Dive stats modelled within real depth limits — not measured

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SightingSeafloorSea tempDeepest dive (modelled)
Aug 13, 202073 m11.7°C61 m
Aug 17, 2020226 m12.0°C53 m
Aug 22, 2020170 m11.6°C72 m
Aug 29, 2020101 m11.2°C79 m

Seafloor and sea temperature measured · ✳ dives modelled

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Deepest dive against the seafloor, per sighting

Seafloor · measured Deepest dive · modelled
Aug 13, 2020 — seafloor 73 m (measured), deepest dive 61 m (modelled)Aug 13Aug 17, 2020 — seafloor 226 m (measured), deepest dive 53 m (modelled)Aug 17Aug 22, 2020 — seafloor 170 m (measured), deepest dive 72 m (modelled)Aug 22Aug 29, 2020 — seafloor 101 m (measured), deepest dive 79 m (modelled)Aug 29

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

Dives

79 m
Deepest dive
2:56
Longest dive
59
Dives
25 m
Avg dive depth
4
Sightings
16
Days first → last

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Dive profile

modelled
05010079 mstartdive sequence (illustrative)

Depth shaped by the seafloor limit here (101 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 · Aug 29, 2020

measured
Seafloor depth
101 m
Sea-surface temperature
11.2°C
Distance from shore
1.0 km

Across the residency · 4 sightings

measured
Seafloor depth
73 m – 226 m
Sea-surface temperature
11.2°C – 12.0°C
Distance from shore
1.0 km – 3.0 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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