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Glacier Bay & Icy Strait

Kel – Residency

17th sighting in Glacier Bay & Icy Strait
Fluke of Kel
Kel Confirmed in the catalog @26724
Jun 23 – Sep 10, 2026 · Glacier Bay & Icy Strait

Long Green Water Season

Whole summer in this cold water, and every tide line still feeds me right.

65 m
Deepest dive
2:49
Longest dive
46
Dives
Sightings
6
Days between first and last sighting
79

Dive stats modelled within real depth limits — not measured

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SightingSeafloorSea tempDeepest dive (modelled)
Jun 23, 2026241 m11.5°C63 m
Aug 30, 202672 m14.2°C59 m
Aug 31, 2026241 m14.2°C65 m
Sep 7, 202668 m14.3°C49 m
Sep 8, 202627 m14.2°C23 m
Sep 10, 202635 m—29 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 23, 2026 — seafloor 241 m (measured), deepest dive 63 m (modelled)Jun 23Aug 30, 2026 — seafloor 72 m (measured), deepest dive 59 m (modelled)Aug 30Aug 31, 2026 — seafloor 241 m (measured), deepest dive 65 m (modelled)Aug 31Sep 7, 2026 — seafloor 68 m (measured), deepest dive 49 m (modelled)Sep 7Sep 8, 2026 — seafloor 27 m (measured), deepest dive 23 m (modelled)Sep 8Sep 10, 2026 — seafloor 35 m (measured), deepest dive 29 m (modelled)Sep 10

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

Dives

65 m
Deepest dive
2:49
Longest dive
46
Dives
22 m
Avg dive depth
6
Sightings
79
Days first → last

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Dive profile

modelled
05010065 mstartdive sequence (illustrative)

Depth shaped by the seafloor limit here (241 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 31, 2026

measured
Seafloor depth
241 m
Sea-surface temperature
14.2°C
Distance from shore
6.0 km

Across the residency · 6 sightings

measured
Seafloor depth
27 m – 241 m
Sea-surface temperature
11.5°C – 14.3°C
Distance from shore
1.0 km – 6.0 km

Sources: GEBCO seafloor grid · NASA JPL MUR sea temperature · PacIOOS coastline distance

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Source records

This activity is assembled from 6 catalogued encounters on Happywhale.

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