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Glacier Bay & Icy Strait

Malthusian – Residency

7th sighting in Glacier Bay & Icy Strait
Fluke of Malthusian
Malthusian Confirmed in the catalog @18600
May 26 – Aug 27, 2019 · Glacier Bay & Icy Strait

Glacier Bay & Icy Strait · May – Aug 2019

119 m
Deepest dive
5:46
Longest dive
39
Dives
Sightings
4
Days between first and last sighting
93

Dive stats modelled within real depth limits — not measured

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SightingSeafloorSea tempDeepest dive (modelled)
May 26, 2019134 m8.7°C119 m
Aug 21, 2019177 m12.7°C47 m
Aug 25, 2019165 m11.9°C45 m
Aug 27, 2019233 m11.8°C56 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 26, 2019 — seafloor 134 m (measured), deepest dive 119 m (modelled)May 26Aug 21, 2019 — seafloor 177 m (measured), deepest dive 47 m (modelled)Aug 21Aug 25, 2019 — seafloor 165 m (measured), deepest dive 45 m (modelled)Aug 25Aug 27, 2019 — seafloor 233 m (measured), deepest dive 56 m (modelled)Aug 27

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

Dives

119 m
Deepest dive
5:46
Longest dive
39
Dives
32 m
Avg dive depth
4
Sightings
93
Days first → last

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Dive profile

modelled
075150119 mstartdive sequence (illustrative)

Depth shaped by the seafloor limit here (134 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 · May 26, 2019

measured
Seafloor depth
134 m
Sea-surface temperature
8.7°C
Distance from shore
1.0 km

Across the residency · 4 sightings

measured
Seafloor depth
134 m – 233 m
Sea-surface temperature
8.7°C – 12.7°C
Distance from shore
1.0 km – 4.0 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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