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Glacier Bay & Icy Strait

Viking – Residency

10th sighting in Glacier Bay & Icy Strait
Fluke of Viking
Viking Confirmed in the catalog @4621
Jun 24 – Sep 4, 2018 · Glacier Bay & Icy Strait

Glacier Bay & Icy Strait · Jun – Sep 2018

112 m
Deepest dive
4:26
Longest dive
90
Dives
Sightings
9
Days between first and last sighting
72

Dive stats modelled within real depth limits — not measured

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SightingSeafloorSea tempDeepest dive (modelled)
Jun 24, 201874 m11.7°C61 m
Jun 30, 2018548 m11.4°C76 m
Jul 16, 201892 m12.5°C75 m
Jul 18, 201823 m13.0°C21 m
Jul 24, 201879 m11.7°C64 m
Jul 24, 2018156 m11.7°C112 m
Aug 1, 2018145 m12.5°C78 m
Aug 23, 2018134 m13.9°C77 m
Sep 4, 2018281 m12.2°C36 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, 2018 — seafloor 74 m (measured), deepest dive 61 m (modelled)Jun 24Jun 30, 2018 — seafloor 548 m (measured), deepest dive 76 m (modelled)Jun 30Jul 16, 2018 — seafloor 92 m (measured), deepest dive 75 m (modelled)Jul 16Jul 18, 2018 — seafloor 23 m (measured), deepest dive 21 m (modelled)Jul 18Jul 24, 2018 — seafloor 79 m (measured), deepest dive 64 m (modelled)Jul 24Jul 24, 2018 — seafloor 156 m (measured), deepest dive 112 m (modelled)Jul 24Aug 1, 2018 — seafloor 145 m (measured), deepest dive 78 m (modelled)Aug 1Aug 23, 2018 — seafloor 134 m (measured), deepest dive 77 m (modelled)Aug 23Sep 4, 2018 — seafloor 281 m (measured), deepest dive 36 m (modelled)Sep 4

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

Dives

112 m
Deepest dive
4:26
Longest dive
90
Dives
27 m
Avg dive depth
9
Sightings
72
Days first → last

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Dive profile

modelled
075150112 mstartdive sequence (illustrative)

Depth shaped by the seafloor limit here (156 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 24, 2018

measured
Seafloor depth
156 m
Sea-surface temperature
11.7°C
Distance from shore
1.0 km

Across the residency · 9 sightings

measured
Seafloor depth
23 m – 548 m
Sea-surface temperature
11.4°C – 13.9°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 9 catalogued encounters on Happywhale.

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