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Glacier Bay & Icy Strait

Eira – Residency

8th sighting in Glacier Bay & Icy Strait
Fluke of Eira
Eira Confirmed in the catalog @26821
Jun 3 – 19, 2025 · Glacier Bay & Icy Strait

Glacier Bay & Icy Strait · Jun 2025

45 m
Deepest dive
2:04
Longest dive
38
Dives
Sightings
4
Days between first and last sighting
15

Dive stats modelled within real depth limits — not measured

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SightingSeafloorSea tempDeepest dive (modelled)
Jun 3, 202540 m8.8°C27 m
Jun 10, 202560 m8.6°C36 m
Jun 12, 2025241 m8.9°C45 m
Jun 19, 202516 m10.6°C14 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 3, 2025 — seafloor 40 m (measured), deepest dive 27 m (modelled)Jun 3Jun 10, 2025 — seafloor 60 m (measured), deepest dive 36 m (modelled)Jun 10Jun 12, 2025 — seafloor 241 m (measured), deepest dive 45 m (modelled)Jun 12Jun 19, 2025 — seafloor 16 m (measured), deepest dive 14 m (modelled)Jun 19

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

Dives

45 m
Deepest dive
2:04
Longest dive
38
Dives
16 m
Avg dive depth
4
Sightings
15
Days first → last

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Dive profile

modelled
0255045 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 · Jun 12, 2025

measured
Seafloor depth
241 m
Sea-surface temperature
8.9°C
Distance from shore
6.0 km

Across the residency · 4 sightings

measured
Seafloor depth
16 m – 241 m
Sea-surface temperature
8.6°C – 10.6°C
Distance from shore
2.0 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 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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