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Glacier Bay & Icy Strait

Casper – Residency

19th sighting in Glacier Bay & Icy Strait
Fluke of Casper
Casper Confirmed in the catalog @26833
Jul 13 – Sep 1, 2026 · Glacier Bay & Icy Strait

Ice-breath season, again the good kind

Late summer in glacier water, and my tail's still the one they know.

103 m
Deepest dive
2:41
Longest dive
78
Dives
Sightings
7
Days between first and last sighting
50

Dive stats modelled within real depth limits — not measured

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SightingSeafloorSea tempDeepest dive (modelled)
Jul 13, 2026117 m13.2°C103 m
Jul 22, 2026436 m13.2°C89 m
Aug 10, 2026139 m14.4°C20 m
Aug 29, 202687 m13.9°C78 m
Aug 30, 202686 m14.1°C52 m
Aug 31, 20268 m14.2°C7 m
Sep 1, 202658 m14.0°C45 m

Seafloor and sea temperature measured · ✳ dives modelled

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Deepest dive against the seafloor, per sighting

Seafloor · measured Deepest dive · modelled
Jul 13, 2026 — seafloor 117 m (measured), deepest dive 103 m (modelled)Jul 13Jul 22, 2026 — seafloor 436 m (measured), deepest dive 89 m (modelled)Jul 22Aug 10, 2026 — seafloor 139 m (measured), deepest dive 20 m (modelled)Aug 10Aug 29, 2026 — seafloor 87 m (measured), deepest dive 78 m (modelled)Aug 29Aug 30, 2026 — seafloor 86 m (measured), deepest dive 52 m (modelled)Aug 30Aug 31, 2026 — seafloor 8 m (measured), deepest dive 7 m (modelled)Aug 31Sep 1, 2026 — seafloor 58 m (measured), deepest dive 45 m (modelled)Sep 1

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

Dives

103 m
Deepest dive
2:41
Longest dive
78
Dives
22 m
Avg dive depth
7
Sightings
50
Days first → last

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Dive profile

modelled
075150103 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 · Jul 13, 2026

measured
Seafloor depth
117 m
Sea-surface temperature
13.2°C
Distance from shore
1.0 km

Across the residency · 7 sightings

measured
Seafloor depth
8 m – 436 m
Sea-surface temperature
13.2°C – 14.4°C
Distance from shore
1.0 km

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

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Source records

This activity is assembled from 7 catalogued encounters on Happywhale.

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