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Glacier Bay & Icy Strait

Grandpa Cookie – Residency

11th sighting in Glacier Bay & Icy Strait
Fluke of Grandpa Cookie
Grandpa Cookie Confirmed in the catalog @23682
Jun 22 – Sep 1, 2026 · Glacier Bay & Icy Strait

Home Water, High Season

Full summer in my bay — I could feed these shorelines blind.

39 m
Deepest dive
1:58
Longest dive
20
Dives
Sightings
2
Days between first and last sighting
71

Dive stats modelled within real depth limits — not measured

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SightingSeafloorSea tempDeepest dive (modelled)
Jun 22, 202621 m11.3°C19 m
Sep 1, 202655 m14.0°C39 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 22, 2026 — seafloor 21 m (measured), deepest dive 19 m (modelled)Jun 22Sep 1, 2026 — seafloor 55 m (measured), deepest dive 39 m (modelled)Sep 1

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

Dives

39 m
Deepest dive
1:58
Longest dive
20
Dives
16 m
Avg dive depth
2
Sightings
71
Days first → last

Dive metrics are modelled within real depth limits — not measured

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Dive profile

modelled
0255039 mstartdive sequence (illustrative)

Depth shaped by the seafloor limit here (55 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 1, 2026

measured
Seafloor depth
55 m
Sea-surface temperature
14.0°C
Distance from shore
2.0 km

Across the residency · 2 sightings

measured
Seafloor depth
21 m – 55 m
Sea-surface temperature
11.3°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 2 catalogued encounters on Happywhale.

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