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Glacier Bay & Icy Strait

Chardonnay – Residency

17th sighting in Glacier Bay & Icy Strait
Fluke of Chardonnay
Chardonnay Confirmed in the catalog @5303
May 25 – Jun 21, 2026 · Glacier Bay & Icy Strait

Cold Water, Old Friends

Tide's working the rocks and I'm right where I belong.

58 m
Deepest dive
2:55
Longest dive
39
Dives
Sightings
3
Days between first and last sighting
27

Dive stats modelled within real depth limits — not measured

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SightingSeafloorSea tempDeepest dive (modelled)
May 25, 202680 m7.4°C53 m
May 26, 202664 m7.3°C58 m
Jun 21, 202680 m11.3°C23 m

Seafloor and sea temperature measured · ✳ dives modelled

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Deepest dive against the seafloor, per sighting

Seafloor · measured Deepest dive · modelled
May 25, 2026 — seafloor 80 m (measured), deepest dive 53 m (modelled)May 25May 26, 2026 — seafloor 64 m (measured), deepest dive 58 m (modelled)May 26Jun 21, 2026 — seafloor 80 m (measured), deepest dive 23 m (modelled)Jun 21

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

Dives

58 m
Deepest dive
2:55
Longest dive
39
Dives
23 m
Avg dive depth
3
Sightings
27
Days first → last

Dive metrics are modelled within real depth limits — not measured

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Dive profile

modelled
05010058 mstartdive sequence (illustrative)

Depth shaped by the seafloor limit here (64 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 · May 26, 2026

measured
Seafloor depth
64 m
Sea-surface temperature
7.3°C
Distance from shore
2.0 km

Across the residency · 3 sightings

measured
Seafloor depth
64 m – 80 m
Sea-surface temperature
7.3°C – 11.3°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 3 catalogued encounters on Happywhale.

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