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Glacier Bay & Icy Strait

Karakia – Residency

24th sighting in Glacier Bay & Icy Strait
Fluke of Karakia
Karakia Confirmed in the catalog @5429
Jun 20 – Aug 12, 2025 · Glacier Bay & Icy Strait

Glacier Bay & Icy Strait · Jun – Aug 2025

173 m
Deepest dive
6:22
Longest dive
83
Dives
Sightings
9
Days between first and last sighting
53

Dive stats modelled within real depth limits — not measured

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SightingSeafloorSea tempDeepest dive (modelled)
Jun 20, 2025159 m11.3°C83 m
Jun 23, 2025250 m11.6°C173 m
Jun 30, 2025150 m11.8°C36 m
Jul 2, 2025109 m11.8°C42 m
Jul 14, 202561 m12.9°C53 m
Jul 27, 2025139 m14.6°C50 m
Aug 2, 2025194 m14.3°C118 m
Aug 11, 202525 m13.7°C22 m
Aug 12, 2025103 m13.7°C87 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 20, 2025 — seafloor 159 m (measured), deepest dive 83 m (modelled)Jun 20Jun 23, 2025 — seafloor 250 m (measured), deepest dive 173 m (modelled)Jun 23Jun 30, 2025 — seafloor 150 m (measured), deepest dive 36 m (modelled)Jun 30Jul 2, 2025 — seafloor 109 m (measured), deepest dive 42 m (modelled)Jul 2Jul 14, 2025 — seafloor 61 m (measured), deepest dive 53 m (modelled)Jul 14Jul 27, 2025 — seafloor 139 m (measured), deepest dive 50 m (modelled)Jul 27Aug 2, 2025 — seafloor 194 m (measured), deepest dive 118 m (modelled)Aug 2Aug 11, 2025 — seafloor 25 m (measured), deepest dive 22 m (modelled)Aug 11Aug 12, 2025 — seafloor 103 m (measured), deepest dive 87 m (modelled)Aug 12

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

Dives

173 m
Deepest dive
6:22
Longest dive
83
Dives
26 m
Avg dive depth
9
Sightings
53
Days first → last

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Dive profile

modelled
0100200173 mstartdive sequence (illustrative)

Depth shaped by the seafloor limit here (250 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 23, 2025

measured
Seafloor depth
250 m
Sea-surface temperature
11.6°C
Distance from shore
—

Across the residency · 9 sightings

measured
Seafloor depth
25 m – 250 m
Sea-surface temperature
11.3°C – 14.6°C
Distance from shore
1.0 km – 3.0 km

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

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Source records

This activity is assembled from 9 catalogued encounters on Happywhale.

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