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Glacier Bay & Icy Strait

SEAK-5453 – Residency

3rd sighting in Glacier Bay & Icy Strait
Fluke of SEAK-5453
SEAK-5453 Confirmed in the catalog @45424
Jun 24 – Sep 1, 2026 · Glacier Bay & Icy Strait

Same Cold Water, Every Summer Count

Glacier melt, bright light, lenses finding me near shore — good stretch.

72 m
Deepest dive
3:07
Longest dive
30
Dives
Sightings
3
Days between first and last sighting
69

Dive stats modelled within real depth limits — not measured

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SightingSeafloorSea tempDeepest dive (modelled)
Jun 24, 202698 m11.6°C70 m
Aug 30, 202682 m14.2°C72 m
Sep 1, 202653 m14.0°C37 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 24, 2026 — seafloor 98 m (measured), deepest dive 70 m (modelled)Jun 24Aug 30, 2026 — seafloor 82 m (measured), deepest dive 72 m (modelled)Aug 30Sep 1, 2026 — seafloor 53 m (measured), deepest dive 37 m (modelled)Sep 1

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

Dives

72 m
Deepest dive
3:07
Longest dive
30
Dives
26 m
Avg dive depth
3
Sightings
69
Days first → last

Dive metrics are modelled within real depth limits — not measured

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Dive profile

modelled
05010072 mstartdive sequence (illustrative)

Depth shaped by the seafloor limit here (82 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 · Aug 30, 2026

measured
Seafloor depth
82 m
Sea-surface temperature
14.2°C
Distance from shore
1.0 km

Across the residency · 3 sightings

measured
Seafloor depth
53 m – 98 m
Sea-surface temperature
11.6°C – 14.2°C
Distance from shore
1.0 km – 7.0 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.

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