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Glacier Bay & Icy Strait

Van Bubbles – Residency

25th sighting in Glacier Bay & Icy Strait
Fluke of Van Bubbles
Van Bubbles Confirmed in the catalog @16920
Jun 29 – Jul 29, 2021 · Glacier Bay & Icy Strait

Glacier Bay & Icy Strait · Jun – Jul 2021

84 m
Deepest dive
3:25
Longest dive
48
Dives
Sightings
4
Days between first and last sighting
30

Dive stats modelled within real depth limits — not measured

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SightingSeafloorSea tempDeepest dive (modelled)
Jun 29, 202177 m12.5°C50 m
Jul 5, 2021253 m11.5°C59 m
Jul 7, 2021103 m11.4°C84 m
Jul 29, 202182 m13.8°C74 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 29, 2021 — seafloor 77 m (measured), deepest dive 50 m (modelled)Jun 29Jul 5, 2021 — seafloor 253 m (measured), deepest dive 59 m (modelled)Jul 5Jul 7, 2021 — seafloor 103 m (measured), deepest dive 84 m (modelled)Jul 7Jul 29, 2021 — seafloor 82 m (measured), deepest dive 74 m (modelled)Jul 29

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

Dives

84 m
Deepest dive
3:25
Longest dive
48
Dives
26 m
Avg dive depth
4
Sightings
30
Days first → last

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Dive profile

modelled
05010084 mstartdive sequence (illustrative)

Depth shaped by the seafloor limit here (103 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 · Jul 7, 2021

measured
Seafloor depth
103 m
Sea-surface temperature
11.4°C
Distance from shore
—

Across the residency · 4 sightings

measured
Seafloor depth
77 m – 253 m
Sea-surface temperature
11.4°C – 13.8°C
Distance from shore
1.0 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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