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Glacier Bay & Icy Strait

SEAK-2315 – Residency

8th sighting in Glacier Bay & Icy Strait
Fluke of SEAK-2315
SEAK-2315 Confirmed in the catalog @28519
Jun 22 – Jul 19, 2026 · Glacier Bay & Icy Strait

Silty Water, Full Season

Two more sightings in the water I know best — that's thirteen summers strong.

71 m
Deepest dive
3:23
Longest dive
32
Dives
Sightings
2
Days between first and last sighting
27
Deepest dive on record
71 m · this residency

Dive stats modelled within real depth limits — not measured

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SightingSeafloorSea tempDeepest dive (modelled)
Jun 22, 2026104 m11.5°C71 m
Jul 19, 202654 m13.2°C43 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 22, 2026 — seafloor 104 m (measured), deepest dive 71 m (modelled)Jun 22Jul 19, 2026 — seafloor 54 m (measured), deepest dive 43 m (modelled)Jul 19

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

Dives

71 m
Deepest dive
3:23
Longest dive
32
Dives
24 m
Avg dive depth
2
Sightings
27
Days first → last

Dive metrics are modelled within real depth limits — not measured

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Dive profile

modelled
05010071 mstartdive sequence (illustrative)

Depth shaped by the seafloor limit here (104 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
104 m
Sea-surface temperature
11.5°C
Distance from shore
1.0 km

Across the residency · 2 sightings

measured
Seafloor depth
54 m – 104 m
Sea-surface temperature
11.5°C – 13.2°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 2 catalogued encounters on Happywhale.

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