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Glacier Bay & Icy Strait

Flying W – Residency

7th sighting in Glacier Bay & Icy Strait
Fluke of Flying W
Flying W Confirmed in the catalog @6352
Aug 15 – 23, 2018 · Glacier Bay & Icy Strait

Glacier Bay & Icy Strait · Aug 2018

94 m
Deepest dive
3:49
Longest dive
20
Dives
Sightings
3
Days between first and last sighting
8

Dive stats modelled within real depth limits — not measured

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SightingSeafloorSea tempDeepest dive (modelled)
Aug 15, 2018199 m12.0°C91 m
Aug 15, 2018558 m12.0°C94 m
Aug 23, 2018134 m13.9°C59 m

Seafloor and sea temperature measured · ✳ dives modelled

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Deepest dive against the seafloor, per sighting

Seafloor · measured Deepest dive · modelled
Aug 15, 2018 — seafloor 199 m (measured), deepest dive 91 m (modelled)Aug 15Aug 15, 2018 — seafloor 558 m (measured), deepest dive 94 m (modelled)Aug 15Aug 23, 2018 — seafloor 134 m (measured), deepest dive 59 m (modelled)Aug 23

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

Dives

94 m
Deepest dive
3:49
Longest dive
20
Dives
38 m
Avg dive depth
3
Sightings
8
Days first → last

Dive metrics are modelled within real depth limits — not measured

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Dive profile

modelled
05010094 mstartdive sequence (illustrative)

Depth shaped by the seafloor limit here (558 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 15, 2018

measured
Seafloor depth
558 m
Sea-surface temperature
12.0°C
Distance from shore
1.0 km

Across the residency · 3 sightings

measured
Seafloor depth
134 m – 558 m
Sea-surface temperature
12.0°C – 13.9°C
Distance from shore
1.0 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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