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Glacier Bay & Icy Strait

Darwin – Residency

61st sighting in Glacier Bay & Icy Strait
Fluke of Darwin
Darwin Confirmed in the catalog @5304
May 30 – Sep 14, 2024 · Glacier Bay & Icy Strait

Summer Circuit Complete

Another season well spent in these familiar waters where the feeding never disappoints.

101 m
Deepest dive
4:39
Longest dive
140
Dives
Sightings
14
Days between first and last sighting
107

Dive stats modelled within real depth limits — not measured

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SightingSeafloorSea tempDeepest dive (modelled)
May 30, 2024116 m8.5°C101 m
Jun 1, 202476 m8.1°C24 m
Jun 2, 2024114 m8.3°C81 m
Jun 9, 2024148 m8.9°C85 m
Jun 10, 2024224 m8.7°C80 m
Jun 11, 2024176 m8.9°C85 m
Jun 13, 2024134 m9.2°C89 m
Jun 17, 2024108 m11.1°C47 m
Jun 18, 202467 m11.4°C60 m
Jun 19, 202489 m11.7°C56 m
Jun 30, 202434 m11.3°C25 m
Aug 8, 202422 m15.7°C19 m
Sep 14, 202424 m12.1°C19 m
Sep 14, 2024111 m12.1°C33 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 30, 2024 — seafloor 116 m (measured), deepest dive 101 m (modelled)May 30Jun 1, 2024 — seafloor 76 m (measured), deepest dive 24 m (modelled)Jun 2, 2024 — seafloor 114 m (measured), deepest dive 81 m (modelled)Jun 9, 2024 — seafloor 148 m (measured), deepest dive 85 m (modelled)Jun 9Jun 10, 2024 — seafloor 224 m (measured), deepest dive 80 m (modelled)Jun 11, 2024 — seafloor 176 m (measured), deepest dive 85 m (modelled)Jun 13, 2024 — seafloor 134 m (measured), deepest dive 89 m (modelled)Jun 13Jun 17, 2024 — seafloor 108 m (measured), deepest dive 47 m (modelled)Jun 18, 2024 — seafloor 67 m (measured), deepest dive 60 m (modelled)Jun 19, 2024 — seafloor 89 m (measured), deepest dive 56 m (modelled)Jun 19Jun 30, 2024 — seafloor 34 m (measured), deepest dive 25 m (modelled)Aug 8, 2024 — seafloor 22 m (measured), deepest dive 19 m (modelled)Sep 14, 2024 — seafloor 24 m (measured), deepest dive 19 m (modelled)Sep 14Sep 14, 2024 — seafloor 111 m (measured), deepest dive 33 m (modelled)

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

Dives

101 m
Deepest dive
4:39
Longest dive
140
Dives
23 m
Avg dive depth
14
Sightings
107
Days first → last

Dive metrics are modelled within real depth limits — not measured

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Dive profile

modelled
075150101 mstartdive sequence (illustrative)

Depth shaped by the seafloor limit here (116 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 30, 2024

measured
Seafloor depth
116 m
Sea-surface temperature
8.5°C
Distance from shore
2.0 km

Across the residency · 14 sightings

measured
Seafloor depth
22 m – 224 m
Sea-surface temperature
8.1°C – 15.7°C
Distance from shore
1.0 km – 8.0 km

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

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Source records

This activity is assembled from 14 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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