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Glacier Bay & Icy Strait

Eocene – Residency

23rd sighting in Glacier Bay & Icy Strait
Fluke of Eocene
Eocene Confirmed in the catalog @5308
Jul 21 – Oct 5, 2021 · Glacier Bay & Icy Strait

Glacier Bay & Icy Strait · Jul – Oct 2021

164 m
Deepest dive
9:30
Longest dive
19
Dives
Sightings
4
Days between first and last sighting
76

Dive stats modelled within real depth limits — not measured

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SightingSeafloorSea tempDeepest dive (modelled)
Jul 21, 2021198 m13.3°C164 m
Aug 1, 202184 m13.9°C25 m
Sep 17, 202150 m11.1°C20 m
Oct 5, 202181 m8.2°C60 m

Seafloor and sea temperature measured · ✳ dives modelled

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Deepest dive against the seafloor, per sighting

Seafloor · measured Deepest dive · modelled
Jul 21, 2021 — seafloor 198 m (measured), deepest dive 164 m (modelled)Jul 21Aug 1, 2021 — seafloor 84 m (measured), deepest dive 25 m (modelled)Aug 1Sep 17, 2021 — seafloor 50 m (measured), deepest dive 20 m (modelled)Sep 17Oct 5, 2021 — seafloor 81 m (measured), deepest dive 60 m (modelled)Oct 5

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

Dives

164 m
Deepest dive
9:30
Longest dive
19
Dives
24 m
Avg dive depth
4
Sightings
76
Days first → last

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Dive profile

modelled
0100200164 mstartdive sequence (illustrative)

Depth shaped by the seafloor limit here (198 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 21, 2021

measured
Seafloor depth
198 m
Sea-surface temperature
13.3°C
Distance from shore
1.0 km

Across the residency · 4 sightings

measured
Seafloor depth
50 m – 198 m
Sea-surface temperature
8.2°C – 13.9°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 4 catalogued encounters on Happywhale.

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