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Glacier Bay & Icy Strait

Mist-ical – Residency

29th sighting in Glacier Bay & Icy Strait
Fluke of Mist-ical
Mist-ical Confirmed in the catalog @25842
Jun 18 – Sep 7, 2026 · Glacier Bay & Icy Strait

Cold Green Water, Full Summer

Mistaken for others, sure — but this bay knows my breath.

80 m
Deepest dive
4:12
Longest dive
60
Dives
Sightings
5
Days between first and last sighting
81

Dive stats modelled within real depth limits — not measured

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SightingSeafloorSea tempDeepest dive (modelled)
Jun 18, 2026144 m9.4°C79 m
Aug 10, 202691 m14.8°C80 m
Sep 1, 2026155 m14.0°C77 m
Sep 6, 202699 m13.3°C36 m
Sep 7, 202699 m13.9°C30 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 18, 2026 — seafloor 144 m (measured), deepest dive 79 m (modelled)Jun 18Aug 10, 2026 — seafloor 91 m (measured), deepest dive 80 m (modelled)Aug 10Sep 1, 2026 — seafloor 155 m (measured), deepest dive 77 m (modelled)Sep 1Sep 6, 2026 — seafloor 99 m (measured), deepest dive 36 m (modelled)Sep 6Sep 7, 2026 — seafloor 99 m (measured), deepest dive 30 m (modelled)Sep 7

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

Dives

80 m
Deepest dive
4:12
Longest dive
60
Dives
22 m
Avg dive depth
5
Sightings
81
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 (91 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 10, 2026

measured
Seafloor depth
91 m
Sea-surface temperature
14.8°C
Distance from shore
1.0 km

Across the residency · 5 sightings

measured
Seafloor depth
91 m – 155 m
Sea-surface temperature
9.4°C – 14.8°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 5 catalogued encounters on Happywhale.

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