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Glacier Bay & Icy Strait

Viking – Residency

43rd sighting in Glacier Bay & Icy Strait
Fluke of Viking
Viking Confirmed in the catalog @4621
Jun 22 – Sep 13, 2023 · Glacier Bay & Icy Strait

Glacier Bay & Icy Strait · Jun – Sep 2023

209 m
Deepest dive
6:20
Longest dive
158
Dives
Sightings
15
Days between first and last sighting
83
Deepest dive on record
209 m · this residency

Dive stats modelled within real depth limits — not measured

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SightingSeafloorSea tempDeepest dive (modelled)
Jun 22, 2023338 m10.4°C64 m
Jun 22, 2023229 m11.4°C192 m
Jun 23, 2023138 m10.9°C78 m
Jul 1, 2023114 m12.0°C88 m
Jul 3, 202367 m11.9°C54 m
Jul 3, 202341 m12.3°C37 m
Jul 4, 202367 m11.9°C44 m
Jul 4, 2023109 m12.1°C65 m
Jul 4, 202336 m11.9°C26 m
Jul 4, 202345 m12.1°C40 m
Jul 21, 2023205 m13.9°C104 m
Jul 31, 2023233 m14.6°C209 m
Aug 3, 202367 m14.8°C56 m
Aug 18, 202374 m14.5°C35 m
Sep 13, 202355 m12.0°C45 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, 2023 — seafloor 338 m (measured), deepest dive 64 m (modelled)Jun 22Jun 22, 2023 — seafloor 229 m (measured), deepest dive 192 m (modelled)Jun 23, 2023 — seafloor 138 m (measured), deepest dive 78 m (modelled)Jul 1, 2023 — seafloor 114 m (measured), deepest dive 88 m (modelled)Jul 1Jul 3, 2023 — seafloor 67 m (measured), deepest dive 54 m (modelled)Jul 3, 2023 — seafloor 41 m (measured), deepest dive 37 m (modelled)Jul 4, 2023 — seafloor 67 m (measured), deepest dive 44 m (modelled)Jul 4Jul 4, 2023 — seafloor 109 m (measured), deepest dive 65 m (modelled)Jul 4, 2023 — seafloor 36 m (measured), deepest dive 26 m (modelled)Jul 4, 2023 — seafloor 45 m (measured), deepest dive 40 m (modelled)Jul 4Jul 21, 2023 — seafloor 205 m (measured), deepest dive 104 m (modelled)Jul 31, 2023 — seafloor 233 m (measured), deepest dive 209 m (modelled)Aug 3, 2023 — seafloor 67 m (measured), deepest dive 56 m (modelled)Aug 3Aug 18, 2023 — seafloor 74 m (measured), deepest dive 35 m (modelled)Sep 13, 2023 — seafloor 55 m (measured), deepest dive 45 m (modelled)

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

Dives

209 m
Deepest dive
6:20
Longest dive
158
Dives
26 m
Avg dive depth
15
Sightings
83
Days first → last

Dive metrics are modelled within real depth limits — not measured

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Dive profile

modelled
0125250209 mstartdive sequence (illustrative)

Depth shaped by the seafloor limit here (233 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 31, 2023

measured
Seafloor depth
233 m
Sea-surface temperature
14.6°C
Distance from shore
2.0 km

Across the residency · 15 sightings

measured
Seafloor depth
36 m – 338 m
Sea-surface temperature
10.4°C – 14.8°C
Distance from shore
1.0 km – 4.0 km

Sources: GEBCO seafloor grid · NASA JPL MUR sea temperature · PacIOOS coastline distance

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Source records

This activity is assembled from 15 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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