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Glacier Bay & Icy Strait

Van Bubbles – Residency

79th sighting in Glacier Bay & Icy Strait
Fluke of Van Bubbles
Van Bubbles Confirmed in the catalog @16920
Jun 10 – Sep 13, 2026 · Glacier Bay & Icy Strait

Green Water, Long Light

Herring running, light stretching late, this bay still learns my flukes.

232 m
Deepest dive
7:32
Longest dive
126
Dives
Sightings
9
Days between first and last sighting
94

Dive stats modelled within real depth limits — not measured

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SightingSeafloorSea tempDeepest dive (modelled)
Jun 10, 202670 m9.2°C63 m
Jun 16, 202682 m9.7°C22 m
Jun 17, 2026117 m9.8°C91 m
Jun 21, 2026556 m11.2°C73 m
Jun 22, 2026197 m11.4°C85 m
Jul 22, 2026436 m13.2°C232 m
Jul 23, 2026215 m13.4°C47 m
Jul 25, 2026309 m13.2°C184 m
Sep 13, 2026439 m12.7°C28 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 10, 2026 — seafloor 70 m (measured), deepest dive 63 m (modelled)Jun 10Jun 16, 2026 — seafloor 82 m (measured), deepest dive 22 m (modelled)Jun 16Jun 17, 2026 — seafloor 117 m (measured), deepest dive 91 m (modelled)Jun 17Jun 21, 2026 — seafloor 556 m (measured), deepest dive 73 m (modelled)Jun 21Jun 22, 2026 — seafloor 197 m (measured), deepest dive 85 m (modelled)Jun 22Jul 22, 2026 — seafloor 436 m (measured), deepest dive 232 m (modelled)Jul 22Jul 23, 2026 — seafloor 215 m (measured), deepest dive 47 m (modelled)Jul 23Jul 25, 2026 — seafloor 309 m (measured), deepest dive 184 m (modelled)Jul 25Sep 13, 2026 — seafloor 439 m (measured), deepest dive 28 m (modelled)Sep 13

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

Dives

232 m
Deepest dive
7:32
Longest dive
126
Dives
27 m
Avg dive depth
9
Sightings
94
Days first → last

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Dive profile

modelled
0125250232 mstartdive sequence (illustrative)

Depth shaped by the seafloor limit here (436 m) and the published dive-behaviour distribution. Modelled, not measured.

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Place

Where this happened · Jul 22, 2026

measured
Seafloor depth
436 m
Sea-surface temperature
13.2°C
Distance from shore
1.0 km

Across the residency · 9 sightings

measured
Seafloor depth
70 m – 556 m
Sea-surface temperature
9.2°C – 13.4°C
Distance from shore
1.0 km – 3.0 km

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

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Source records

This activity is assembled from 9 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.

The photographs and fluke identifications behind every sighting are the work of the contributing observers — the citizen scientists, naturalists and operators who logged them, each named in the underlying GBIF occurrence record. Every activity links out to its source encounters on Happywhale. Basemaps © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL).

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