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Glacier Bay & Icy Strait

Viking – Residency

13th sighting in Glacier Bay & Icy Strait
Fluke of Viking
Viking Confirmed in the catalog @4621
Jul 24 – Sep 17, 2019 · Glacier Bay & Icy Strait

Glacier Bay & Icy Strait · Jul – Sep 2019

114 m
Deepest dive
6:13
Longest dive
79
Dives
Sightings
4
Days between first and last sighting
55

Dive stats modelled within real depth limits — not measured

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SightingSeafloorSea tempDeepest dive (modelled)
Jul 24, 2019269 m13.6°C114 m
Aug 29, 2019141 m12.1°C113 m
Sep 16, 2019216 m12.3°C108 m
Sep 17, 2019140 m12.1°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
Jul 24, 2019 — seafloor 269 m (measured), deepest dive 114 m (modelled)Jul 24Aug 29, 2019 — seafloor 141 m (measured), deepest dive 113 m (modelled)Aug 29Sep 16, 2019 — seafloor 216 m (measured), deepest dive 108 m (modelled)Sep 16Sep 17, 2019 — seafloor 140 m (measured), deepest dive 43 m (modelled)Sep 17

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

Dives

114 m
Deepest dive
6:13
Longest dive
79
Dives
27 m
Avg dive depth
4
Sightings
55
Days first → last

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Dive profile

modelled
075150114 mstartdive sequence (illustrative)

Depth shaped by the seafloor limit here (269 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, 2019

measured
Seafloor depth
269 m
Sea-surface temperature
13.6°C
Distance from shore
2.0 km

Across the residency · 4 sightings

measured
Seafloor depth
140 m – 269 m
Sea-surface temperature
12.1°C – 13.6°C
Distance from shore
1.0 km – 2.0 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.

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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