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Glacier Bay & Icy Strait

Mist-ical – Residency

25th sighting in Glacier Bay & Icy Strait
Fluke of Mist-ical
Mist-ical Confirmed in the catalog @25842
Aug 16 – Sep 29, 2025 · Glacier Bay & Icy Strait

Glacier Bay & Icy Strait · Aug – Sep 2025

84 m
Deepest dive
3:01
Longest dive
56
Dives
Sightings
4
Days between first and last sighting
44

Dive stats modelled within real depth limits — not measured

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SightingSeafloorSea tempDeepest dive (modelled)
Aug 16, 202592 m14.9°C17 m
Aug 20, 2025117 m14.2°C84 m
Sep 28, 202574 m12.2°C42 m
Sep 29, 202586 m11.7°C68 m

Seafloor and sea temperature measured · ✳ dives modelled

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Deepest dive against the seafloor, per sighting

Seafloor · measured Deepest dive · modelled
Aug 16, 2025 — seafloor 92 m (measured), deepest dive 17 m (modelled)Aug 16Aug 20, 2025 — seafloor 117 m (measured), deepest dive 84 m (modelled)Aug 20Sep 28, 2025 — seafloor 74 m (measured), deepest dive 42 m (modelled)Sep 28Sep 29, 2025 — seafloor 86 m (measured), deepest dive 68 m (modelled)Sep 29

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

Dives

84 m
Deepest dive
3:01
Longest dive
56
Dives
23 m
Avg dive depth
4
Sightings
44
Days first → last

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Dive profile

modelled
05010084 mstartdive sequence (illustrative)

Depth shaped by the seafloor limit here (117 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 20, 2025

measured
Seafloor depth
117 m
Sea-surface temperature
14.2°C
Distance from shore
1.0 km

Across the residency · 4 sightings

measured
Seafloor depth
74 m – 117 m
Sea-surface temperature
11.7°C – 14.9°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 4 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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