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Glacier Bay & Icy Strait

Maltease – Residency

20th sighting in Glacier Bay & Icy Strait
Fluke of Maltease
Maltease Confirmed in the catalog @16852
Jun 4 – Aug 1, 2024 · Glacier Bay & Icy Strait

Glacier Bay & Icy Strait · Jun – Aug 2024

108 m
Deepest dive
3:46
Longest dive
116
Dives
Sightings
11
Days between first and last sighting
58

Dive stats modelled within real depth limits — not measured

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SightingSeafloorSea tempDeepest dive (modelled)
Jun 4, 202484 m9.4°C66 m
Jun 9, 2024167 m8.9°C54 m
Jun 10, 2024224 m8.7°C43 m
Jun 11, 202458 m8.9°C46 m
Jun 12, 2024240 m8.5°C108 m
Jun 13, 2024187 m9.2°C105 m
Jun 30, 202471 m11.6°C61 m
Jul 10, 202435 m12.4°C32 m
Jul 19, 2024385 m11.8°C45 m
Jul 22, 2024305 m13.1°C62 m
Aug 1, 2024104 m12.3°C76 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 4, 2024 — seafloor 84 m (measured), deepest dive 66 m (modelled)Jun 4Jun 9, 2024 — seafloor 167 m (measured), deepest dive 54 m (modelled)Jun 9Jun 10, 2024 — seafloor 224 m (measured), deepest dive 43 m (modelled)Jun 10Jun 11, 2024 — seafloor 58 m (measured), deepest dive 46 m (modelled)Jun 11Jun 12, 2024 — seafloor 240 m (measured), deepest dive 108 m (modelled)Jun 12Jun 13, 2024 — seafloor 187 m (measured), deepest dive 105 m (modelled)Jun 13Jun 30, 2024 — seafloor 71 m (measured), deepest dive 61 m (modelled)Jun 30Jul 10, 2024 — seafloor 35 m (measured), deepest dive 32 m (modelled)Jul 10Jul 19, 2024 — seafloor 385 m (measured), deepest dive 45 m (modelled)Jul 19Jul 22, 2024 — seafloor 305 m (measured), deepest dive 62 m (modelled)Jul 22Aug 1, 2024 — seafloor 104 m (measured), deepest dive 76 m (modelled)Aug 1

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

Dives

108 m
Deepest dive
3:46
Longest dive
116
Dives
24 m
Avg dive depth
11
Sightings
58
Days first → last

Dive metrics are modelled within real depth limits — not measured

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Dive profile

modelled
075150108 mstartdive sequence (illustrative)

Depth shaped by the seafloor limit here (240 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 12, 2024

measured
Seafloor depth
240 m
Sea-surface temperature
8.5°C
Distance from shore
1.0 km

Across the residency · 11 sightings

measured
Seafloor depth
35 m – 385 m
Sea-surface temperature
8.5°C – 13.1°C
Distance from shore
1.0 km – 6.0 km

Sources: GEBCO seafloor grid · NASA JPL MUR sea temperature · PacIOOS coastline distance

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Source records

This activity is assembled from 11 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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