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Glacier Bay & Icy Strait

Bitey – Residency

12th sighting in Glacier Bay & Icy Strait
Fluke of Bitey
Bitey Confirmed in the catalog @22570
May 7 – Sep 17, 2019 · Glacier Bay & Icy Strait

Glacier Bay & Icy Strait · May – Sep 2019

164 m
Deepest dive
6:45
Longest dive
117
Dives
Sightings
9
Days between first and last sighting
133

Dive stats modelled within real depth limits — not measured

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SightingSeafloorSea tempDeepest dive (modelled)
May 7, 2019256 m7.0°C164 m
Jul 31, 201986 m12.1°C78 m
Aug 13, 2019275 m14.8°C48 m
Aug 15, 2019151 m14.0°C79 m
Aug 24, 2019117 m12.0°C46 m
Aug 29, 2019141 m12.1°C68 m
Sep 15, 2019163 m12.1°C23 m
Sep 16, 2019230 m12.3°C103 m
Sep 17, 2019198 m12.1°C120 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 7, 2019 — seafloor 256 m (measured), deepest dive 164 m (modelled)May 7Jul 31, 2019 — seafloor 86 m (measured), deepest dive 78 m (modelled)Jul 31Aug 13, 2019 — seafloor 275 m (measured), deepest dive 48 m (modelled)Aug 13Aug 15, 2019 — seafloor 151 m (measured), deepest dive 79 m (modelled)Aug 15Aug 24, 2019 — seafloor 117 m (measured), deepest dive 46 m (modelled)Aug 24Aug 29, 2019 — seafloor 141 m (measured), deepest dive 68 m (modelled)Aug 29Sep 15, 2019 — seafloor 163 m (measured), deepest dive 23 m (modelled)Sep 15Sep 16, 2019 — seafloor 230 m (measured), deepest dive 103 m (modelled)Sep 16Sep 17, 2019 — seafloor 198 m (measured), deepest dive 120 m (modelled)Sep 17

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

Dives

164 m
Deepest dive
6:45
Longest dive
117
Dives
27 m
Avg dive depth
9
Sightings
133
Days first → last

Dive metrics are modelled within real depth limits — not measured

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Dive profile

modelled
0100200164 mstartdive sequence (illustrative)

Depth shaped by the seafloor limit here (256 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 7, 2019

measured
Seafloor depth
256 m
Sea-surface temperature
7.0°C
Distance from shore
1.0 km

Across the residency · 9 sightings

measured
Seafloor depth
86 m – 275 m
Sea-surface temperature
7.0°C – 14.8°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 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.

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