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Glacier Bay & Icy Strait

Eocene – Residency

38th sighting in Glacier Bay & Icy Strait
Fluke of Eocene
Eocene Confirmed in the catalog @5308
Jun 22 – Sep 4, 2023 · Glacier Bay & Icy Strait

Glacier Bay & Icy Strait · Jun – Sep 2023

110 m
Deepest dive
4:17
Longest dive
89
Dives
Sightings
10
Days between first and last sighting
74

Dive stats modelled within real depth limits — not measured

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SightingSeafloorSea tempDeepest dive (modelled)
Jun 22, 2023229 m11.4°C50 m
Jun 23, 202358 m11.5°C49 m
Jun 24, 202368 m11.7°C62 m
Jul 14, 202372 m14.9°C45 m
Jul 19, 2023133 m13.2°C110 m
Jul 19, 2023110 m13.0°C70 m
Jul 22, 202391 m14.8°C57 m
Aug 7, 202374 m12.4°C64 m
Aug 11, 202355 m14.1°C38 m
Sep 4, 202358 m12.3°C42 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 22, 2023 — seafloor 229 m (measured), deepest dive 50 m (modelled)Jun 22Jun 23, 2023 — seafloor 58 m (measured), deepest dive 49 m (modelled)Jun 23Jun 24, 2023 — seafloor 68 m (measured), deepest dive 62 m (modelled)Jun 24Jul 14, 2023 — seafloor 72 m (measured), deepest dive 45 m (modelled)Jul 14Jul 19, 2023 — seafloor 133 m (measured), deepest dive 110 m (modelled)Jul 19Jul 19, 2023 — seafloor 110 m (measured), deepest dive 70 m (modelled)Jul 19Jul 22, 2023 — seafloor 91 m (measured), deepest dive 57 m (modelled)Jul 22Aug 7, 2023 — seafloor 74 m (measured), deepest dive 64 m (modelled)Aug 7Aug 11, 2023 — seafloor 55 m (measured), deepest dive 38 m (modelled)Aug 11Sep 4, 2023 — seafloor 58 m (measured), deepest dive 42 m (modelled)Sep 4

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

Dives

110 m
Deepest dive
4:17
Longest dive
89
Dives
25 m
Avg dive depth
10
Sightings
74
Days first → last

Dive metrics are modelled within real depth limits — not measured

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Dive profile

modelled
075150110 mstartdive sequence (illustrative)

Depth shaped by the seafloor limit here (133 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 19, 2023

measured
Seafloor depth
133 m
Sea-surface temperature
13.2°C
Distance from shore
1.0 km

Across the residency · 10 sightings

measured
Seafloor depth
55 m – 229 m
Sea-surface temperature
11.4°C – 14.9°C
Distance from shore
1.0 km – 2.0 km

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

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Source records

This activity is assembled from 10 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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