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Glacier Bay & Icy Strait

Volpe – Residency

19th sighting in Glacier Bay & Icy Strait
Fluke of Volpe
Volpe Confirmed in the catalog @23072
May 16 – Sep 1, 2026 · Glacier Bay & Icy Strait

Spruce-Air Summer

Cold water, sharp spruce smell, exactly where I belong.

80 m
Deepest dive
3:38
Longest dive
21
Dives
Sightings
3
Days between first and last sighting
108

Dive stats modelled within real depth limits — not measured

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SightingSeafloorSea tempDeepest dive (modelled)
May 16, 2026119 m8.3°C80 m
Jul 21, 202613 m13.1°C10 m
Sep 1, 202655 m14.0°C15 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 16, 2026 — seafloor 119 m (measured), deepest dive 80 m (modelled)May 16Jul 21, 2026 — seafloor 13 m (measured), deepest dive 10 m (modelled)Jul 21Sep 1, 2026 — seafloor 55 m (measured), deepest dive 15 m (modelled)Sep 1

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

Dives

80 m
Deepest dive
3:38
Longest dive
21
Dives
17 m
Avg dive depth
3
Sightings
108
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 (119 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 16, 2026

measured
Seafloor depth
119 m
Sea-surface temperature
8.3°C
Distance from shore
1.0 km

Across the residency · 3 sightings

measured
Seafloor depth
13 m – 119 m
Sea-surface temperature
8.3°C – 14.0°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 3 catalogued encounters on Happywhale.

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