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Glacier Bay & Icy Strait

Appoggiatura – Residency

37th sighting in Glacier Bay & Icy Strait
Fluke of Appoggiatura
Appoggiatura Confirmed in the catalog @5837
Jul 4 – Sep 15, 2025 · Glacier Bay & Icy Strait

Glacier Bay & Icy Strait · Jul – Sep 2025

61 m
Deepest dive
2:08
Longest dive
53
Dives
Sightings
7
Days between first and last sighting
73

Dive stats modelled within real depth limits — not measured

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SightingSeafloorSea tempDeepest dive (modelled)
Jul 4, 202583 m12.6°C61 m
Jul 5, 2025108 m12.3°C46 m
Jul 9, 202545 m12.9°C39 m
Jul 26, 202532 m14.1°C28 m
Aug 4, 2025116 m14.6°C39 m
Aug 26, 2025133 m15.1°C60 m
Sep 15, 2025130 m14.1°C44 m

Seafloor and sea temperature measured · ✳ dives modelled

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Deepest dive against the seafloor, per sighting

Seafloor · measured Deepest dive · modelled
Jul 4, 2025 — seafloor 83 m (measured), deepest dive 61 m (modelled)Jul 4Jul 5, 2025 — seafloor 108 m (measured), deepest dive 46 m (modelled)Jul 5Jul 9, 2025 — seafloor 45 m (measured), deepest dive 39 m (modelled)Jul 9Jul 26, 2025 — seafloor 32 m (measured), deepest dive 28 m (modelled)Jul 26Aug 4, 2025 — seafloor 116 m (measured), deepest dive 39 m (modelled)Aug 4Aug 26, 2025 — seafloor 133 m (measured), deepest dive 60 m (modelled)Aug 26Sep 15, 2025 — seafloor 130 m (measured), deepest dive 44 m (modelled)Sep 15

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

Dives

61 m
Deepest dive
2:08
Longest dive
53
Dives
23 m
Avg dive depth
7
Sightings
73
Days first → last

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Dive profile

modelled
05010061 mstartdive sequence (illustrative)

Depth shaped by the seafloor limit here (83 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 4, 2025

measured
Seafloor depth
83 m
Sea-surface temperature
12.6°C
Distance from shore
1.0 km

Across the residency · 7 sightings

measured
Seafloor depth
32 m – 133 m
Sea-surface temperature
12.3°C – 15.1°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 7 catalogued encounters on Happywhale.

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