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Glacier Bay & Icy Strait

Comb over – Residency

4th sighting in Glacier Bay & Icy Strait
Fluke of Comb over
Comb over Confirmed in the catalog @18449
Jun 5 – Sep 25, 2020 · Glacier Bay & Icy Strait

Glacier Bay & Icy Strait · Jun – Sep 2020

100 m
Deepest dive
3:52
Longest dive
54
Dives
Sightings
4
Days between first and last sighting
112

Dive stats modelled within real depth limits — not measured

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SightingSeafloorSea tempDeepest dive (modelled)
Jun 5, 2020113 m10.4°C84 m
Jul 31, 2020120 m11.9°C100 m
Aug 29, 202093 m10.6°C80 m
Sep 25, 202098 m9.4°C78 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 5, 2020 — seafloor 113 m (measured), deepest dive 84 m (modelled)Jun 5Jul 31, 2020 — seafloor 120 m (measured), deepest dive 100 m (modelled)Jul 31Aug 29, 2020 — seafloor 93 m (measured), deepest dive 80 m (modelled)Aug 29Sep 25, 2020 — seafloor 98 m (measured), deepest dive 78 m (modelled)Sep 25

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

Dives

100 m
Deepest dive
3:52
Longest dive
54
Dives
32 m
Avg dive depth
4
Sightings
112
Days first → last

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Dive profile

modelled
050100100 mstartdive sequence (illustrative)

Depth shaped by the seafloor limit here (120 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 31, 2020

measured
Seafloor depth
120 m
Sea-surface temperature
11.9°C
Distance from shore
1.0 km

Across the residency · 4 sightings

measured
Seafloor depth
93 m – 120 m
Sea-surface temperature
9.4°C – 11.9°C
Distance from shore
1.0 km – 2.0 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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