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Glacier Bay & Icy Strait

Canonical – Residency

8th sighting in Glacier Bay & Icy Strait
Fluke of Canonical
Canonical Confirmed in the catalog @5895
May 14 – Aug 30, 2026 · Glacier Bay & Icy Strait

A Whole Summer Here

Icy Strait kept me all season, and I kept showing up for it.

290 m
Deepest dive
9:53
Longest dive
137
Dives
Sightings
7
Days between first and last sighting
107
Deepest dive on record
290 m · this residency

Dive stats modelled within real depth limits — not measured

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SightingSeafloorSea tempDeepest dive (modelled)
May 14, 2026126 m8.0°C112 m
Jul 5, 202646 m12.0°C37 m
Jul 22, 2026436 m13.2°C290 m
Jul 23, 2026215 m13.4°C81 m
Aug 3, 2026173 m13.5°C132 m
Aug 29, 202688 m13.9°C81 m
Aug 30, 202685 m14.1°C71 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 14, 2026 — seafloor 126 m (measured), deepest dive 112 m (modelled)May 14Jul 5, 2026 — seafloor 46 m (measured), deepest dive 37 m (modelled)Jul 5Jul 22, 2026 — seafloor 436 m (measured), deepest dive 290 m (modelled)Jul 22Jul 23, 2026 — seafloor 215 m (measured), deepest dive 81 m (modelled)Jul 23Aug 3, 2026 — seafloor 173 m (measured), deepest dive 132 m (modelled)Aug 3Aug 29, 2026 — seafloor 88 m (measured), deepest dive 81 m (modelled)Aug 29Aug 30, 2026 — seafloor 85 m (measured), deepest dive 71 m (modelled)Aug 30

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

Dives

290 m
Deepest dive
9:53
Longest dive
137
Dives
29 m
Avg dive depth
7
Sightings
107
Days first → last

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Dive profile

modelled
0150300290 mstartdive sequence (illustrative)

Depth shaped by the seafloor limit here (436 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 22, 2026

measured
Seafloor depth
436 m
Sea-surface temperature
13.2°C
Distance from shore
1.0 km

Across the residency · 7 sightings

measured
Seafloor depth
46 m – 436 m
Sea-surface temperature
8.0°C – 14.1°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 7 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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