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Glacier Bay & Icy Strait

Volpe – Residency

14th sighting in Glacier Bay & Icy Strait
Fluke of Volpe
Volpe Confirmed in the catalog @23072
Jun 21 – Sep 3, 2023 · Glacier Bay & Icy Strait

Glacier Bay & Icy Strait · Jun – Sep 2023

72 m
Deepest dive
3:02
Longest dive
59
Dives
Sightings
6
Days between first and last sighting
74

Dive stats modelled within real depth limits — not measured

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SightingSeafloorSea tempDeepest dive (modelled)
Jun 21, 202372 m—49 m
Jul 11, 202363 m—34 m
Aug 17, 202348 m—32 m
Aug 29, 202362 m—44 m
Aug 29, 202397 m—72 m
Sep 3, 202350 m—40 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 21, 2023 — seafloor 72 m (measured), deepest dive 49 m (modelled)Jun 21Jul 11, 2023 — seafloor 63 m (measured), deepest dive 34 m (modelled)Jul 11Aug 17, 2023 — seafloor 48 m (measured), deepest dive 32 m (modelled)Aug 17Aug 29, 2023 — seafloor 62 m (measured), deepest dive 44 m (modelled)Aug 29Aug 29, 2023 — seafloor 97 m (measured), deepest dive 72 m (modelled)Aug 29Sep 3, 2023 — seafloor 50 m (measured), deepest dive 40 m (modelled)Sep 3

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

Dives

72 m
Deepest dive
3:02
Longest dive
59
Dives
20 m
Avg dive depth
6
Sightings
74
Days first → last

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Dive profile

modelled
05010072 mstartdive sequence (illustrative)

Depth shaped by the seafloor limit here (97 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 · Aug 29, 2023

measured
Seafloor depth
97 m
Sea-surface temperature
—
Distance from shore
2.0 km

Across the residency · 6 sightings

measured
Seafloor depth
48 m – 97 m
Sea-surface temperature
—
Distance from shore
1.0 km – 4.0 km

Sources: GEBCO seafloor grid · PacIOOS coastline distance

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Source records

This activity is assembled from 6 catalogued encounters on Happywhale.

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