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Glacier Bay & Icy Strait

Q-Tip – Residency

11th sighting in Glacier Bay & Icy Strait
Fluke of Q-Tip
Q-Tip Confirmed in the catalog @5306
Jun 6 – Jul 16, 2024 · Glacier Bay & Icy Strait

Glacier Bay & Icy Strait · Jun – Jul 2024

126 m
Deepest dive
5:16
Longest dive
50
Dives
Sightings
3
Days between first and last sighting
40

Dive stats modelled within real depth limits — not measured

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SightingSeafloorSea tempDeepest dive (modelled)
Jun 6, 2024167 m—126 m
Jun 14, 2024163 m—33 m
Jul 16, 202420 m—18 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 6, 2024 — seafloor 167 m (measured), deepest dive 126 m (modelled)Jun 6Jun 14, 2024 — seafloor 163 m (measured), deepest dive 33 m (modelled)Jun 14Jul 16, 2024 — seafloor 20 m (measured), deepest dive 18 m (modelled)Jul 16

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

Dives

126 m
Deepest dive
5:16
Longest dive
50
Dives
20 m
Avg dive depth
3
Sightings
40
Days first → last

Dive metrics are modelled within real depth limits — not measured

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Dive profile

modelled
075150126 mstartdive sequence (illustrative)

Depth shaped by the seafloor limit here (167 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 · Jun 6, 2024

measured
Seafloor depth
167 m
Sea-surface temperature
—
Distance from shore
2.0 km

Across the residency · 3 sightings

measured
Seafloor depth
20 m – 167 m
Sea-surface temperature
—
Distance from shore
1.0 km – 7.0 km

Sources: GEBCO seafloor grid · PacIOOS coastline distance

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Source records

This activity is assembled from 3 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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