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Glacier Bay & Icy Strait

Tenakee Turkey – Residency

23rd sighting in Glacier Bay & Icy Strait
Fluke of Tenakee Turkey
Tenakee Turkey Confirmed in the catalog @26780
Mar 24 – Sep 16, 2023 · Glacier Bay & Icy Strait

Glacier Bay & Icy Strait · Mar – Sep 2023

106 m
Deepest dive
3:34
Longest dive
260
Dives
Sightings
18
Days between first and last sighting
176

Dive stats modelled within real depth limits — not measured

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SightingSeafloorSea tempDeepest dive (modelled)
Mar 24, 202364 m4.5°C52 m
Mar 28, 202337 m4.4°C30 m
Apr 22, 202328 m5.0°C24 m
Jun 12, 2023347 m9.4°C45 m
Jun 21, 202348 m9.5°C32 m
Jun 27, 202345 m9.6°C33 m
Jul 11, 202382 m9.9°C32 m
Aug 7, 202350 m13.7°C39 m
Aug 11, 202397 m13.2°C60 m
Aug 15, 202350 m13.8°C38 m
Aug 19, 2023122 m13.8°C39 m
Aug 19, 202372 m13.9°C31 m
Aug 23, 2023133 m13.5°C106 m
Aug 24, 202360 m13.2°C47 m
Aug 29, 202362 m13.2°C53 m
Sep 13, 2023133 m11.8°C59 m
Sep 14, 2023125 m11.8°C34 m
Sep 16, 202318 m11.7°C16 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 24, 2023 — seafloor 64 m (measured), deepest dive 52 m (modelled)Mar 24Mar 28, 2023 — seafloor 37 m (measured), deepest dive 30 m (modelled)Apr 22, 2023 — seafloor 28 m (measured), deepest dive 24 m (modelled)Jun 12, 2023 — seafloor 347 m (measured), deepest dive 45 m (modelled)Jun 12Jun 21, 2023 — seafloor 48 m (measured), deepest dive 32 m (modelled)Jun 27, 2023 — seafloor 45 m (measured), deepest dive 33 m (modelled)Jul 11, 2023 — seafloor 82 m (measured), deepest dive 32 m (modelled)Jul 11Aug 7, 2023 — seafloor 50 m (measured), deepest dive 39 m (modelled)Aug 11, 2023 — seafloor 97 m (measured), deepest dive 60 m (modelled)Aug 15, 2023 — seafloor 50 m (measured), deepest dive 38 m (modelled)Aug 15Aug 19, 2023 — seafloor 122 m (measured), deepest dive 39 m (modelled)Aug 19, 2023 — seafloor 72 m (measured), deepest dive 31 m (modelled)Aug 23, 2023 — seafloor 133 m (measured), deepest dive 106 m (modelled)Aug 23Aug 24, 2023 — seafloor 60 m (measured), deepest dive 47 m (modelled)Aug 29, 2023 — seafloor 62 m (measured), deepest dive 53 m (modelled)Sep 13, 2023 — seafloor 133 m (measured), deepest dive 59 m (modelled)Sep 13Sep 14, 2023 — seafloor 125 m (measured), deepest dive 34 m (modelled)Sep 16, 2023 — seafloor 18 m (measured), deepest dive 16 m (modelled)

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

Dives

106 m
Deepest dive
3:34
Longest dive
260
Dives
20 m
Avg dive depth
18
Sightings
176
Days first → last

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Dive profile

modelled
075150106 mstartdive sequence (illustrative)

Depth shaped by the seafloor limit here (133 m) and the published dive-behaviour distribution. Modelled, not measured.

Deep Effort Score

Deep

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Place

Where this happened · Aug 23, 2023

measured
Seafloor depth
133 m
Sea-surface temperature
13.5°C
Distance from shore
1.0 km

Across the residency · 18 sightings

measured
Seafloor depth
18 m – 347 m
Sea-surface temperature
4.4°C – 13.9°C
Distance from shore
1.0 km – 4.0 km

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

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Source records

This activity is assembled from 18 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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