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Glacier Bay & Icy Strait

Rakes – Residency

14th sighting in Glacier Bay & Icy Strait
Fluke of Rakes
Rakes Confirmed in the catalog @16815
Aug 18 – Sep 21, 2023 · Glacier Bay & Icy Strait

Glacier Bay & Icy Strait · Aug – Sep 2023

72 m
Deepest dive
3:35
Longest dive
84
Dives
Sightings
10
Days between first and last sighting
34

Dive stats modelled within real depth limits — not measured

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SightingSeafloorSea tempDeepest dive (modelled)
Aug 18, 202335 m11.9°C32 m
Aug 19, 202365 m11.7°C43 m
Aug 20, 202397 m11.4°C49 m
Aug 21, 202326 m11.3°C24 m
Sep 12, 2023133 m11.8°C48 m
Sep 12, 2023211 m12.1°C72 m
Sep 12, 202362 m12.0°C54 m
Sep 12, 202365 m12.0°C30 m
Sep 13, 202355 m12.0°C39 m
Sep 21, 202383 m10.2°C43 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 18, 2023 — seafloor 35 m (measured), deepest dive 32 m (modelled)Aug 18Aug 19, 2023 — seafloor 65 m (measured), deepest dive 43 m (modelled)Aug 19Aug 20, 2023 — seafloor 97 m (measured), deepest dive 49 m (modelled)Aug 20Aug 21, 2023 — seafloor 26 m (measured), deepest dive 24 m (modelled)Aug 21Sep 12, 2023 — seafloor 133 m (measured), deepest dive 48 m (modelled)Sep 12Sep 12, 2023 — seafloor 211 m (measured), deepest dive 72 m (modelled)Sep 12Sep 12, 2023 — seafloor 62 m (measured), deepest dive 54 m (modelled)Sep 12Sep 12, 2023 — seafloor 65 m (measured), deepest dive 30 m (modelled)Sep 12Sep 13, 2023 — seafloor 55 m (measured), deepest dive 39 m (modelled)Sep 13Sep 21, 2023 — seafloor 83 m (measured), deepest dive 43 m (modelled)Sep 21

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

Dives

72 m
Deepest dive
3:35
Longest dive
84
Dives
21 m
Avg dive depth
10
Sightings
34
Days first → last

Dive metrics are modelled within real depth limits — not measured

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Dive profile

modelled
05010072 mstartdive sequence (illustrative)

Depth shaped by the seafloor limit here (211 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 12, 2023

measured
Seafloor depth
211 m
Sea-surface temperature
12.1°C
Distance from shore
4.0 km

Across the residency · 10 sightings

measured
Seafloor depth
26 m – 211 m
Sea-surface temperature
10.2°C – 12.1°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 10 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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