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Glacier Bay & Icy Strait

Manta – Residency

22nd sighting in Glacier Bay & Icy Strait
Fluke of Manta
Manta Confirmed in the catalog @16810
May 19 – Sep 12, 2022 · Glacier Bay & Icy Strait

Glacier Bay & Icy Strait · May – Sep 2022

293 m
Deepest dive
10:03
Longest dive
132
Dives
Sightings
9
Days between first and last sighting
116
Deepest dive on record
293 m · this residency

Dive stats modelled within real depth limits — not measured

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SightingSeafloorSea tempDeepest dive (modelled)
May 19, 2022520 m8.2°C293 m
May 26, 202256 m9.5°C47 m
Aug 4, 202266 m13.4°C58 m
Aug 4, 2022175 m13.2°C97 m
Aug 4, 202272 m13.4°C53 m
Aug 9, 202257 m12.3°C45 m
Aug 15, 202232 m13.4°C29 m
Aug 21, 2022140 m13.5°C30 m
Sep 12, 2022111 m11.1°C102 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 19, 2022 — seafloor 520 m (measured), deepest dive 293 m (modelled)May 19May 26, 2022 — seafloor 56 m (measured), deepest dive 47 m (modelled)May 26Aug 4, 2022 — seafloor 66 m (measured), deepest dive 58 m (modelled)Aug 4Aug 4, 2022 — seafloor 175 m (measured), deepest dive 97 m (modelled)Aug 4Aug 4, 2022 — seafloor 72 m (measured), deepest dive 53 m (modelled)Aug 4Aug 9, 2022 — seafloor 57 m (measured), deepest dive 45 m (modelled)Aug 9Aug 15, 2022 — seafloor 32 m (measured), deepest dive 29 m (modelled)Aug 15Aug 21, 2022 — seafloor 140 m (measured), deepest dive 30 m (modelled)Aug 21Sep 12, 2022 — seafloor 111 m (measured), deepest dive 102 m (modelled)Sep 12

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

Dives

293 m
Deepest dive
10:03
Longest dive
132
Dives
25 m
Avg dive depth
9
Sightings
116
Days first → last

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Dive profile

modelled
0150300293 mstartdive sequence (illustrative)

Depth shaped by the seafloor limit here (520 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 · May 19, 2022

measured
Seafloor depth
520 m
Sea-surface temperature
8.2°C
Distance from shore
5.0 km

Across the residency · 9 sightings

measured
Seafloor depth
32 m – 520 m
Sea-surface temperature
8.2°C – 13.5°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 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.

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