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Glacier Bay & Icy Strait

Appoggiatura – Residency

5th sighting in Glacier Bay & Icy Strait
Fluke of Appoggiatura
Appoggiatura Confirmed in the catalog @5837
Jul 29 – Aug 17, 2020 · Glacier Bay & Icy Strait

Glacier Bay & Icy Strait · Jul – Aug 2020

81 m
Deepest dive
3:33
Longest dive
36
Dives
Sightings
5
Days between first and last sighting
19

Dive stats modelled within real depth limits — not measured

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SightingSeafloorSea tempDeepest dive (modelled)
Jul 29, 2020109 m11.7°C49 m
Aug 10, 2020113 m12.9°C81 m
Aug 12, 202040 m11.5°C25 m
Aug 12, 2020141 m11.6°C25 m
Aug 17, 202073 m11.5°C61 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 29, 2020 — seafloor 109 m (measured), deepest dive 49 m (modelled)Jul 29Aug 10, 2020 — seafloor 113 m (measured), deepest dive 81 m (modelled)Aug 10Aug 12, 2020 — seafloor 40 m (measured), deepest dive 25 m (modelled)Aug 12Aug 12, 2020 — seafloor 141 m (measured), deepest dive 25 m (modelled)Aug 12Aug 17, 2020 — seafloor 73 m (measured), deepest dive 61 m (modelled)Aug 17

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

Dives

81 m
Deepest dive
3:33
Longest dive
36
Dives
25 m
Avg dive depth
5
Sightings
19
Days first → last

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Dive profile

modelled
05010081 mstartdive sequence (illustrative)

Depth shaped by the seafloor limit here (113 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 10, 2020

measured
Seafloor depth
113 m
Sea-surface temperature
12.9°C
Distance from shore
2.0 km

Across the residency · 5 sightings

measured
Seafloor depth
40 m – 141 m
Sea-surface temperature
11.5°C – 12.9°C
Distance from shore
2.0 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 5 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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