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Glacier Bay & Icy Strait

Melancholy – Residency

3rd sighting in Glacier Bay & Icy Strait
Fluke of Melancholy
Melancholy Confirmed in the catalog @5311
Jun 24 – Sep 4, 2018 · Glacier Bay & Icy Strait

Glacier Bay & Icy Strait · Jun – Sep 2018

139 m
Deepest dive
5:05
Longest dive
47
Dives
Sightings
3
Days between first and last sighting
72

Dive stats modelled within real depth limits — not measured

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SightingSeafloorSea tempDeepest dive (modelled)
Jun 24, 201874 m11.7°C36 m
Aug 15, 2018199 m12.0°C139 m
Sep 4, 2018316 m12.2°C17 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 24, 2018 — seafloor 74 m (measured), deepest dive 36 m (modelled)Jun 24Aug 15, 2018 — seafloor 199 m (measured), deepest dive 139 m (modelled)Aug 15Sep 4, 2018 — seafloor 316 m (measured), deepest dive 17 m (modelled)Sep 4

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

Dives

139 m
Deepest dive
5:05
Longest dive
47
Dives
20 m
Avg dive depth
3
Sightings
72
Days first → last

Dive metrics are modelled within real depth limits — not measured

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Dive profile

modelled
075150139 mstartdive sequence (illustrative)

Depth shaped by the seafloor limit here (199 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 · Aug 15, 2018

measured
Seafloor depth
199 m
Sea-surface temperature
12.0°C
Distance from shore
—

Across the residency · 3 sightings

measured
Seafloor depth
74 m – 316 m
Sea-surface temperature
11.7°C – 12.2°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 3 catalogued encounters on Happywhale.

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