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Glacier Bay & Icy Strait

Viking – Residency

16th sighting in Glacier Bay & Icy Strait
Fluke of Viking
Viking Confirmed in the catalog @4621
Aug 4 – Sep 6, 2020 · Glacier Bay & Icy Strait

Glacier Bay & Icy Strait · Aug – Sep 2020

78 m
Deepest dive
3:10
Longest dive
67
Dives
Sightings
4
Days between first and last sighting
33

Dive stats modelled within real depth limits — not measured

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SightingSeafloorSea tempDeepest dive (modelled)
Aug 4, 202076 m12.1°C56 m
Aug 6, 202024 m12.7°C22 m
Sep 5, 202086 m10.9°C78 m
Sep 6, 202088 m11.0°C64 m

Seafloor and sea temperature measured · ✳ dives modelled

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Deepest dive against the seafloor, per sighting

Seafloor · measured Deepest dive · modelled
Aug 4, 2020 — seafloor 76 m (measured), deepest dive 56 m (modelled)Aug 4Aug 6, 2020 — seafloor 24 m (measured), deepest dive 22 m (modelled)Aug 6Sep 5, 2020 — seafloor 86 m (measured), deepest dive 78 m (modelled)Sep 5Sep 6, 2020 — seafloor 88 m (measured), deepest dive 64 m (modelled)Sep 6

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

Dives

78 m
Deepest dive
3:10
Longest dive
67
Dives
24 m
Avg dive depth
4
Sightings
33
Days first → last

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Dive profile

modelled
05010078 mstartdive sequence (illustrative)

Depth shaped by the seafloor limit here (86 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 5, 2020

measured
Seafloor depth
86 m
Sea-surface temperature
10.9°C
Distance from shore
1.0 km

Across the residency · 4 sightings

measured
Seafloor depth
24 m – 88 m
Sea-surface temperature
10.9°C – 12.7°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 4 catalogued encounters on Happywhale.

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