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Glacier Bay & Icy Strait

Maritza – Residency

20th sighting in Glacier Bay & Icy Strait
Fluke of Maritza
Maritza Confirmed in the catalog @5506
May 26 – Sep 15, 2026 · Glacier Bay & Icy Strait

Home Water, Deep Roots

Feed's stacked up thick, and this shoreline still knows my tail.

48 m
Deepest dive
1:51
Longest dive
26
Dives
Sightings
3
Days between first and last sighting
111

Dive stats modelled within real depth limits — not measured

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SightingSeafloorSea tempDeepest dive (modelled)
May 26, 202677 m7.4°C43 m
Jul 15, 202669 m13.3°C48 m
Sep 15, 2026139 m11.2°C36 m

Seafloor and sea temperature measured · ✳ dives modelled

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Deepest dive against the seafloor, per sighting

Seafloor · measured Deepest dive · modelled
May 26, 2026 — seafloor 77 m (measured), deepest dive 43 m (modelled)May 26Jul 15, 2026 — seafloor 69 m (measured), deepest dive 48 m (modelled)Jul 15Sep 15, 2026 — seafloor 139 m (measured), deepest dive 36 m (modelled)Sep 15

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

Dives

48 m
Deepest dive
1:51
Longest dive
26
Dives
23 m
Avg dive depth
3
Sightings
111
Days first → last

Dive metrics are modelled within real depth limits — not measured

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Dive profile

modelled
0255048 mstartdive sequence (illustrative)

Depth shaped by the seafloor limit here (69 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 15, 2026

measured
Seafloor depth
69 m
Sea-surface temperature
13.3°C
Distance from shore
2.0 km

Across the residency · 3 sightings

measured
Seafloor depth
69 m – 139 m
Sea-surface temperature
7.4°C – 13.3°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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