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Glacier Bay & Icy Strait

Kirk – Residency

4th sighting in Glacier Bay & Icy Strait
Fluke of Kirk
Kirk Confirmed in the catalog @16849
Jul 31 – Sep 16, 2019 · Glacier Bay & Icy Strait

Glacier Bay & Icy Strait · Jul – Sep 2019

142 m
Deepest dive
5:11
Longest dive
44
Dives
Sightings
3
Days between first and last sighting
47
Deepest dive on record
142 m · this residency

Dive stats modelled within real depth limits — not measured

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SightingSeafloorSea tempDeepest dive (modelled)
Jul 31, 201947 m—35 m
Sep 15, 2019198 m—142 m
Sep 16, 2019261 m—67 m

Seafloor and sea temperature measured · ✳ dives modelled

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Deepest dive against the seafloor, per sighting

Seafloor · measured Deepest dive · modelled
Jul 31, 2019 — seafloor 47 m (measured), deepest dive 35 m (modelled)Jul 31Sep 15, 2019 — seafloor 198 m (measured), deepest dive 142 m (modelled)Sep 15Sep 16, 2019 — seafloor 261 m (measured), deepest dive 67 m (modelled)Sep 16

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

Dives

142 m
Deepest dive
5:11
Longest dive
44
Dives
25 m
Avg dive depth
3
Sightings
47
Days first → last

Dive metrics are modelled within real depth limits — not measured

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Dive profile

modelled
075150142 mstartdive sequence (illustrative)

Depth shaped by the seafloor limit here (198 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 15, 2019

measured
Seafloor depth
198 m
Sea-surface temperature
—
Distance from shore
2.0 km

Across the residency · 3 sightings

measured
Seafloor depth
47 m – 261 m
Sea-surface temperature
—
Distance from shore
1.0 km – 2.0 km

Sources: GEBCO seafloor grid · PacIOOS coastline distance

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Source records

This activity is assembled from 3 catalogued encounters on Happywhale.

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