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Glacier Bay & Icy Strait

Hoonah – Residency

19th sighting in Glacier Bay & Icy Strait
Fluke of Hoonah
Hoonah Confirmed in the catalog @24835
Mar 20 – Jun 20, 2026 · Glacier Bay & Icy Strait

Herring Season, My Water

Gravel beaches, thick herring, this bay knows me and I know it.

90 m
Deepest dive
4:33
Longest dive
31
Dives
Sightings
3
Days between first and last sighting
91
Deepest dive on record
90 m · this residency

Dive stats modelled within real depth limits — not measured

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SightingSeafloorSea tempDeepest dive (modelled)
Mar 20, 2026105 m5.0°C71 m
Apr 27, 2026139 m6.1°C90 m
Jun 20, 2026139 m11.3°C47 m

Seafloor and sea temperature measured · ✳ dives modelled

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Deepest dive against the seafloor, per sighting

Seafloor · measured Deepest dive · modelled
Mar 20, 2026 — seafloor 105 m (measured), deepest dive 71 m (modelled)Mar 20Apr 27, 2026 — seafloor 139 m (measured), deepest dive 90 m (modelled)Apr 27Jun 20, 2026 — seafloor 139 m (measured), deepest dive 47 m (modelled)Jun 20

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

Dives

90 m
Deepest dive
4:33
Longest dive
31
Dives
30 m
Avg dive depth
3
Sightings
91
Days first → last

Dive metrics are modelled within real depth limits — not measured

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Dive profile

modelled
05010090 mstartdive sequence (illustrative)

Depth shaped by the seafloor limit here (139 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 · Apr 27, 2026

measured
Seafloor depth
139 m
Sea-surface temperature
6.1°C
Distance from shore
1.0 km

Across the residency · 3 sightings

measured
Seafloor depth
105 m – 139 m
Sea-surface temperature
5.0°C – 11.3°C
Distance from shore
1.0 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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