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Glacier Bay & Icy Strait

Nexus – Residency

43rd sighting in Glacier Bay & Icy Strait
Fluke of Nexus
Nexus Confirmed in the catalog @5672
Jun 24 – Sep 23, 2023 · Glacier Bay & Icy Strait

Glacier Bay & Icy Strait · Jun – Sep 2023

118 m
Deepest dive
3:45
Longest dive
141
Dives
Sightings
12
Days between first and last sighting
91

Dive stats modelled within real depth limits — not measured

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SightingSeafloorSea tempDeepest dive (modelled)
Jun 24, 202368 m11.7°C40 m
Jun 25, 2023121 m12.3°C47 m
Jul 1, 2023113 m12.0°C99 m
Jul 2, 202375 m11.9°C22 m
Jul 3, 202366 m12.0°C53 m
Jul 15, 202365 m13.0°C53 m
Jul 17, 202391 m12.0°C54 m
Sep 11, 2023112 m11.4°C72 m
Sep 12, 202362 m12.0°C43 m
Sep 13, 2023133 m11.8°C26 m
Sep 14, 2023125 m11.8°C76 m
Sep 23, 2023420 m10.2°C118 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, 2023 — seafloor 68 m (measured), deepest dive 40 m (modelled)Jun 24Jun 25, 2023 — seafloor 121 m (measured), deepest dive 47 m (modelled)Jun 25Jul 1, 2023 — seafloor 113 m (measured), deepest dive 99 m (modelled)Jul 1Jul 2, 2023 — seafloor 75 m (measured), deepest dive 22 m (modelled)Jul 2Jul 3, 2023 — seafloor 66 m (measured), deepest dive 53 m (modelled)Jul 3Jul 15, 2023 — seafloor 65 m (measured), deepest dive 53 m (modelled)Jul 15Jul 17, 2023 — seafloor 91 m (measured), deepest dive 54 m (modelled)Jul 17Sep 11, 2023 — seafloor 112 m (measured), deepest dive 72 m (modelled)Sep 11Sep 12, 2023 — seafloor 62 m (measured), deepest dive 43 m (modelled)Sep 12Sep 13, 2023 — seafloor 133 m (measured), deepest dive 26 m (modelled)Sep 13Sep 14, 2023 — seafloor 125 m (measured), deepest dive 76 m (modelled)Sep 14Sep 23, 2023 — seafloor 420 m (measured), deepest dive 118 m (modelled)Sep 23

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

Dives

118 m
Deepest dive
3:45
Longest dive
141
Dives
22 m
Avg dive depth
12
Sightings
91
Days first → last

Dive metrics are modelled within real depth limits — not measured

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Dive profile

modelled
075150118 mstartdive sequence (illustrative)

Depth shaped by the seafloor limit here (420 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 · Sep 23, 2023

measured
Seafloor depth
420 m
Sea-surface temperature
10.2°C
Distance from shore
2.0 km

Across the residency · 12 sightings

measured
Seafloor depth
62 m – 420 m
Sea-surface temperature
10.2°C – 13.0°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 12 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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