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Kenai Fjords & Resurrection Bay

HW-MN0410605 – Residency

19th sighting in Kenai Fjords & Resurrection Bay
Fluke of HW-MN0410605
HW-MN0410605 Confirmed in the catalog @26990
Jul 18 – 21, 2026 · Kenai Fjords & Resurrection Bay

Cold Water, Good Company

Rising among familiar backs, feeding hard, feeling great up here.

34 m
Deepest dive
2:22
Longest dive
63
Dives
Sightings
3
Days between first and last sighting
3

Dive stats modelled within real depth limits — not measured

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SightingSeafloorSea tempDeepest dive (modelled)
Jul 18, 202658 m11.5°C30 m
Jul 20, 202648 m—34 m
Jul 21, 202628 m—25 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 18, 2026 — seafloor 58 m (measured), deepest dive 30 m (modelled)Jul 18Jul 20, 2026 — seafloor 48 m (measured), deepest dive 34 m (modelled)Jul 20Jul 21, 2026 — seafloor 28 m (measured), deepest dive 25 m (modelled)Jul 21

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

Dives

34 m
Deepest dive
2:22
Longest dive
63
Dives
14 m
Avg dive depth
3
Sightings
3
Days first → last

Dive metrics are modelled within real depth limits — not measured

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Dive profile

modelled
0255034 mstartdive sequence (illustrative)

Depth shaped by the seafloor limit here (48 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 20, 2026

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

Across the residency · 3 sightings

measured
Seafloor depth
28 m – 58 m
Sea-surface temperature
11.5°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 3 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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