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Glacier Bay & Icy Strait

Smyles – Residency

7th sighting in Glacier Bay & Icy Strait
Fluke of Smyles
Smyles Confirmed in the catalog @26856
Apr 16 – Oct 2, 2025 · Glacier Bay & Icy Strait

Glacier Bay & Icy Strait · Apr – Oct 2025

81 m
Deepest dive
3:22
Longest dive
53
Dives
Sightings
5
Days between first and last sighting
169

Dive stats modelled within real depth limits — not measured

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SightingSeafloorSea tempDeepest dive (modelled)
Apr 16, 202587 m—74 m
May 8, 2025-8 m——
May 19, 202531 m—26 m
Jul 8, 2025128 m—81 m
Oct 2, 202569 m—43 m

Seafloor and sea temperature measured · ✳ dives modelled

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Deepest dive against the seafloor, per sighting

Seafloor · measured Deepest dive · modelled
Apr 16, 2025 — seafloor 87 m (measured), deepest dive 74 m (modelled)Apr 16May 8, 2025 — seafloor -8 m (measured), deepest dive — (modelled)May 8May 19, 2025 — seafloor 31 m (measured), deepest dive 26 m (modelled)May 19Jul 8, 2025 — seafloor 128 m (measured), deepest dive 81 m (modelled)Jul 8Oct 2, 2025 — seafloor 69 m (measured), deepest dive 43 m (modelled)Oct 2

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

Dives

81 m
Deepest dive
3:22
Longest dive
53
Dives
25 m
Avg dive depth
5
Sightings
169
Days first → last

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Dive profile

modelled
05010081 mstartdive sequence (illustrative)

Depth shaped by the seafloor limit here (128 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 8, 2025

measured
Seafloor depth
128 m
Sea-surface temperature
—
Distance from shore
1.0 km

Across the residency · 5 sightings

measured
Seafloor depth
-8 m – 128 m
Sea-surface temperature
—
Distance from shore
1.0 km

Sources: GEBCO seafloor grid · PacIOOS coastline distance

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Source records

This activity is assembled from 5 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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