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Glacier Bay & Icy Strait

Darwin – Residency

66th sighting in Glacier Bay & Icy Strait
Fluke of Darwin
Darwin Confirmed in the catalog @5304
Jun 30 – Aug 30, 2025 · Glacier Bay & Icy Strait

Summer Session

Same old reliable spots, same old reliable me through another long season.

87 m
Deepest dive
3:08
Longest dive
108
Dives
Sightings
7
Days between first and last sighting
61

Dive stats modelled within real depth limits — not measured

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SightingSeafloorSea tempDeepest dive (modelled)
Jun 30, 2025134 m11.8°C66 m
Jul 2, 2025154 m11.8°C87 m
Jul 31, 202551 m14.7°C43 m
Aug 2, 2025116 m14.4°C54 m
Aug 19, 2025103 m14.2°C61 m
Aug 21, 2025110 m14.1°C78 m
Aug 30, 2025191 m14.9°C81 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 30, 2025 — seafloor 134 m (measured), deepest dive 66 m (modelled)Jun 30Jul 2, 2025 — seafloor 154 m (measured), deepest dive 87 m (modelled)Jul 2Jul 31, 2025 — seafloor 51 m (measured), deepest dive 43 m (modelled)Jul 31Aug 2, 2025 — seafloor 116 m (measured), deepest dive 54 m (modelled)Aug 2Aug 19, 2025 — seafloor 103 m (measured), deepest dive 61 m (modelled)Aug 19Aug 21, 2025 — seafloor 110 m (measured), deepest dive 78 m (modelled)Aug 21Aug 30, 2025 — seafloor 191 m (measured), deepest dive 81 m (modelled)Aug 30

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

Dives

87 m
Deepest dive
3:08
Longest dive
108
Dives
25 m
Avg dive depth
7
Sightings
61
Days first → last

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Dive profile

modelled
05010087 mstartdive sequence (illustrative)

Depth shaped by the seafloor limit here (154 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 2, 2025

measured
Seafloor depth
154 m
Sea-surface temperature
11.8°C
Distance from shore
—

Across the residency · 7 sightings

measured
Seafloor depth
51 m – 191 m
Sea-surface temperature
11.8°C – 14.9°C
Distance from shore
1.0 km

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

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Source records

This activity is assembled from 7 catalogued encounters on Happywhale.

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