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Glacier Bay & Icy Strait

Bitey – Residency

21st sighting in Glacier Bay & Icy Strait
Fluke of Bitey
Bitey Confirmed in the catalog @22570
Jun 17 – Sep 16, 2020 · Glacier Bay & Icy Strait

Glacier Bay & Icy Strait · Jun – Sep 2020

80 m
Deepest dive
2:55
Longest dive
108
Dives
Sightings
9
Days between first and last sighting
91

Dive stats modelled within real depth limits — not measured

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SightingSeafloorSea tempDeepest dive (modelled)
Jun 17, 2020496 m10.4°C78 m
Jul 4, 202072 m11.4°C55 m
Jul 29, 2020109 m11.7°C65 m
Aug 10, 2020113 m12.9°C64 m
Aug 22, 2020182 m11.6°C32 m
Aug 29, 2020101 m11.2°C49 m
Sep 5, 202086 m10.9°C64 m
Sep 6, 202088 m11.0°C80 m
Sep 16, 202088 m11.1°C77 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 17, 2020 — seafloor 496 m (measured), deepest dive 78 m (modelled)Jun 17Jul 4, 2020 — seafloor 72 m (measured), deepest dive 55 m (modelled)Jul 4Jul 29, 2020 — seafloor 109 m (measured), deepest dive 65 m (modelled)Jul 29Aug 10, 2020 — seafloor 113 m (measured), deepest dive 64 m (modelled)Aug 10Aug 22, 2020 — seafloor 182 m (measured), deepest dive 32 m (modelled)Aug 22Aug 29, 2020 — seafloor 101 m (measured), deepest dive 49 m (modelled)Aug 29Sep 5, 2020 — seafloor 86 m (measured), deepest dive 64 m (modelled)Sep 5Sep 6, 2020 — seafloor 88 m (measured), deepest dive 80 m (modelled)Sep 6Sep 16, 2020 — seafloor 88 m (measured), deepest dive 77 m (modelled)Sep 16

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

Dives

80 m
Deepest dive
2:55
Longest dive
108
Dives
24 m
Avg dive depth
9
Sightings
91
Days first → last

Dive metrics are modelled within real depth limits — not measured

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Dive profile

modelled
05010080 mstartdive sequence (illustrative)

Depth shaped by the seafloor limit here (88 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 · Sep 6, 2020

measured
Seafloor depth
88 m
Sea-surface temperature
11.0°C
Distance from shore
1.0 km

Across the residency · 9 sightings

measured
Seafloor depth
72 m – 496 m
Sea-surface temperature
10.4°C – 12.9°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.

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