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Kenai Fjords & Resurrection Bay

Orion's Solstice – Residency

20th sighting in Kenai Fjords & Resurrection Bay
Fluke of Orion's Solstice
Orion's Solstice Confirmed in the catalog @26988
Jun 20 – Jul 18, 2026 · Kenai Fjords & Resurrection Bay

Herring Season, My Bay

Weeks of fat feed and good company — this bay never shortchanges me.

75 m
Deepest dive
3:38
Longest dive
73
Dives
Sightings
9
Days between first and last sighting
28

Dive stats modelled within real depth limits — not measured

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SightingSeafloorSea tempDeepest dive (modelled)
Jun 20, 202695 m8.5°C69 m
Jun 21, 2026103 m8.7°C46 m
Jun 22, 202683 m9.1°C75 m
Jun 23, 2026102 m9.8°C66 m
Jul 10, 202680 m11.3°C72 m
Jul 11, 202688 m11.5°C40 m
Jul 12, 202673 m12.0°C60 m
Jul 13, 202644 m12.2°C18 m
Jul 18, 202665 m11.5°C50 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 20, 2026 — seafloor 95 m (measured), deepest dive 69 m (modelled)Jun 20Jun 21, 2026 — seafloor 103 m (measured), deepest dive 46 m (modelled)Jun 21Jun 22, 2026 — seafloor 83 m (measured), deepest dive 75 m (modelled)Jun 22Jun 23, 2026 — seafloor 102 m (measured), deepest dive 66 m (modelled)Jun 23Jul 10, 2026 — seafloor 80 m (measured), deepest dive 72 m (modelled)Jul 10Jul 11, 2026 — seafloor 88 m (measured), deepest dive 40 m (modelled)Jul 11Jul 12, 2026 — seafloor 73 m (measured), deepest dive 60 m (modelled)Jul 12Jul 13, 2026 — seafloor 44 m (measured), deepest dive 18 m (modelled)Jul 13Jul 18, 2026 — seafloor 65 m (measured), deepest dive 50 m (modelled)Jul 18

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

Dives

75 m
Deepest dive
3:38
Longest dive
73
Dives
24 m
Avg dive depth
9
Sightings
28
Days first → last

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Dive profile

modelled
05010075 mstartdive sequence (illustrative)

Depth shaped by the seafloor limit here (83 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 22, 2026

measured
Seafloor depth
83 m
Sea-surface temperature
9.1°C
Distance from shore
2.0 km

Across the residency · 9 sightings

measured
Seafloor depth
44 m – 103 m
Sea-surface temperature
8.5°C – 12.2°C
Distance from shore
1.0 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 9 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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