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Glacier Bay & Icy Strait

Van Bubbles – Residency

50th sighting in Glacier Bay & Icy Strait
Fluke of Van Bubbles
Van Bubbles Confirmed in the catalog @16920
May 11 – Aug 18, 2023 · Glacier Bay & Icy Strait

Glacier Bay & Icy Strait · May – Aug 2023

170 m
Deepest dive
4:51
Longest dive
229
Dives
Sightings
21
Days between first and last sighting
99

Dive stats modelled within real depth limits — not measured

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SightingSeafloorSea tempDeepest dive (modelled)
May 11, 202377 m7.3°C68 m
Jun 12, 2023347 m9.4°C17 m
Jun 22, 2023229 m11.4°C170 m
Jun 23, 2023134 m11.5°C107 m
Jun 23, 202358 m11.5°C25 m
Jun 24, 202368 m11.7°C43 m
Jun 25, 2023121 m12.3°C104 m
Jun 25, 202397 m12.3°C67 m
Jun 26, 2023100 m12.7°C40 m
Jul 1, 202361 m12.0°C47 m
Jul 2, 202362 m12.2°C35 m
Jul 2, 202374 m11.8°C56 m
Jul 2, 202371 m11.9°C63 m
Jul 2, 202396 m11.8°C41 m
Jul 3, 202367 m11.9°C39 m
Jul 3, 202366 m12.0°C51 m
Jul 3, 202341 m12.3°C37 m
Jul 4, 2023109 m12.1°C82 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 11, 2023 — seafloor 77 m (measured), deepest dive 68 m (modelled)May 11Jun 12, 2023 — seafloor 347 m (measured), deepest dive 17 m (modelled)Jun 22, 2023 — seafloor 229 m (measured), deepest dive 170 m (modelled)Jun 23, 2023 — seafloor 134 m (measured), deepest dive 107 m (modelled)Jun 23, 2023 — seafloor 58 m (measured), deepest dive 25 m (modelled)Jun 23Jun 24, 2023 — seafloor 68 m (measured), deepest dive 43 m (modelled)Jun 25, 2023 — seafloor 121 m (measured), deepest dive 104 m (modelled)Jun 25, 2023 — seafloor 97 m (measured), deepest dive 67 m (modelled)Jun 26, 2023 — seafloor 100 m (measured), deepest dive 40 m (modelled)Jun 26Jul 1, 2023 — seafloor 61 m (measured), deepest dive 47 m (modelled)Jul 2, 2023 — seafloor 62 m (measured), deepest dive 35 m (modelled)Jul 2, 2023 — seafloor 74 m (measured), deepest dive 56 m (modelled)Jul 2, 2023 — seafloor 71 m (measured), deepest dive 63 m (modelled)Jul 2Jul 2, 2023 — seafloor 96 m (measured), deepest dive 41 m (modelled)Jul 3, 2023 — seafloor 67 m (measured), deepest dive 39 m (modelled)Jul 3, 2023 — seafloor 66 m (measured), deepest dive 51 m (modelled)Jul 3, 2023 — seafloor 41 m (measured), deepest dive 37 m (modelled)Jul 3Jul 4, 2023 — seafloor 109 m (measured), deepest dive 82 m (modelled)Jul 4, 2023 — seafloor 36 m (measured), deepest dive 32 m (modelled)Aug 5, 2023 — seafloor 316 m (measured), deepest dive 39 m (modelled)Aug 18, 2023 — seafloor 35 m (measured), deepest dive 18 m (modelled)Aug 18

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

Dives

170 m
Deepest dive
4:51
Longest dive
229
Dives
23 m
Avg dive depth
21
Sightings
99
Days first → last

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Dive profile

modelled
0100200170 mstartdive sequence (illustrative)

Depth shaped by the seafloor limit here (229 m) and the published dive-behaviour distribution. Modelled, not measured.

Deep Effort Score

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Place

Where this happened · Jun 22, 2023

measured
Seafloor depth
229 m
Sea-surface temperature
11.4°C
Distance from shore
1.0 km

Across the residency · 21 sightings

measured
Seafloor depth
35 m – 347 m
Sea-surface temperature
7.3°C – 13.1°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 21 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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