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Glacier Bay & Icy Strait

King Kallu – Residency

19th sighting in Glacier Bay & Icy Strait
Fluke of King Kallu
King Kallu Confirmed in the catalog @26876
May 19 – Sep 1, 2026 · Glacier Bay & Icy Strait

Full Season in the Bay

Summer's stretched long here, and I'm still the one everyone spots first.

105 m
Deepest dive
3:44
Longest dive
49
Dives
Sightings
5
Days between first and last sighting
104

Dive stats modelled within real depth limits — not measured

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SightingSeafloorSea tempDeepest dive (modelled)
May 19, 2026108 m8.1°C79 m
May 20, 202655 m8.0°C49 m
Jun 2, 2026133 m8.2°C50 m
Aug 28, 2026166 m13.8°C74 m
Sep 1, 2026155 m14.0°C105 m

Seafloor and sea temperature measured · ✳ dives modelled

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Deepest dive against the seafloor, per sighting

Seafloor · measured Deepest dive · modelled
May 19, 2026 — seafloor 108 m (measured), deepest dive 79 m (modelled)May 19May 20, 2026 — seafloor 55 m (measured), deepest dive 49 m (modelled)May 20Jun 2, 2026 — seafloor 133 m (measured), deepest dive 50 m (modelled)Jun 2Aug 28, 2026 — seafloor 166 m (measured), deepest dive 74 m (modelled)Aug 28Sep 1, 2026 — seafloor 155 m (measured), deepest dive 105 m (modelled)Sep 1

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

Dives

105 m
Deepest dive
3:44
Longest dive
49
Dives
28 m
Avg dive depth
5
Sightings
104
Days first → last

Dive metrics are modelled within real depth limits — not measured

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Dive profile

modelled
075150105 mstartdive sequence (illustrative)

Depth shaped by the seafloor limit here (155 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 · Sep 1, 2026

measured
Seafloor depth
155 m
Sea-surface temperature
14.0°C
Distance from shore
2.0 km

Across the residency · 5 sightings

measured
Seafloor depth
55 m – 166 m
Sea-surface temperature
8.0°C – 14.0°C
Distance from shore
1.0 km – 2.0 km

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

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Source records

This activity is assembled from 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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