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Glacier Bay & Icy Strait

Darwin – Residency

16th sighting in Glacier Bay & Icy Strait
Fluke of Darwin
Darwin Confirmed in the catalog @5304
May 21 – Sep 4, 2018 · Glacier Bay & Icy Strait

Glacier Bay & Icy Strait · May – Sep 2018

83 m
Deepest dive
3:22
Longest dive
61
Dives
Sightings
6
Days between first and last sighting
106

Dive stats modelled within real depth limits — not measured

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SightingSeafloorSea tempDeepest dive (modelled)
May 21, 2018102 m8.1°C77 m
Jun 28, 201852 m10.7°C42 m
Jun 29, 2018129 m11.2°C30 m
Jul 16, 2018180 m12.4°C74 m
Jul 24, 201879 m11.7°C48 m
Sep 4, 2018316 m12.2°C83 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 21, 2018 — seafloor 102 m (measured), deepest dive 77 m (modelled)May 21Jun 28, 2018 — seafloor 52 m (measured), deepest dive 42 m (modelled)Jun 28Jun 29, 2018 — seafloor 129 m (measured), deepest dive 30 m (modelled)Jun 29Jul 16, 2018 — seafloor 180 m (measured), deepest dive 74 m (modelled)Jul 16Jul 24, 2018 — seafloor 79 m (measured), deepest dive 48 m (modelled)Jul 24Sep 4, 2018 — seafloor 316 m (measured), deepest dive 83 m (modelled)Sep 4

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

Dives

83 m
Deepest dive
3:22
Longest dive
61
Dives
25 m
Avg dive depth
6
Sightings
106
Days first → last

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Dive profile

modelled
05010083 mstartdive sequence (illustrative)

Depth shaped by the seafloor limit here (316 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 · Sep 4, 2018

measured
Seafloor depth
316 m
Sea-surface temperature
12.2°C
Distance from shore
1.0 km

Across the residency · 6 sightings

measured
Seafloor depth
52 m – 316 m
Sea-surface temperature
8.1°C – 12.4°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 6 catalogued encounters on Happywhale.

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