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Glacier Bay & Icy Strait

Flying W – Residency

26th sighting in Glacier Bay & Icy Strait
Fluke of Flying W
Flying W Confirmed in the catalog @6352
Jun 17 – Sep 16, 2020 · Glacier Bay & Icy Strait

Glacier Bay & Icy Strait · Jun – Sep 2020

122 m
Deepest dive
4:59
Longest dive
160
Dives
Sightings
13
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 17, 2020496 m10.4°C122 m
Jul 4, 202072 m11.4°C65 m
Jul 11, 2020107 m12.5°C89 m
Jul 13, 202061 m12.6°C43 m
Jul 29, 2020109 m11.7°C93 m
Aug 4, 202051 m12.1°C43 m
Aug 6, 202024 m12.7°C21 m
Aug 10, 2020113 m12.9°C96 m
Aug 12, 202040 m11.5°C30 m
Sep 5, 202086 m10.9°C55 m
Sep 6, 202088 m11.0°C50 m
Sep 10, 2020185 m11.1°C97 m
Sep 16, 202061 m11.0°C47 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 17, 2020 — seafloor 496 m (measured), deepest dive 122 m (modelled)Jun 17Jul 4, 2020 — seafloor 72 m (measured), deepest dive 65 m (modelled)Jul 11, 2020 — seafloor 107 m (measured), deepest dive 89 m (modelled)Jul 13, 2020 — seafloor 61 m (measured), deepest dive 43 m (modelled)Jul 13Jul 29, 2020 — seafloor 109 m (measured), deepest dive 93 m (modelled)Aug 4, 2020 — seafloor 51 m (measured), deepest dive 43 m (modelled)Aug 6, 2020 — seafloor 24 m (measured), deepest dive 21 m (modelled)Aug 6Aug 10, 2020 — seafloor 113 m (measured), deepest dive 96 m (modelled)Aug 12, 2020 — seafloor 40 m (measured), deepest dive 30 m (modelled)Sep 5, 2020 — seafloor 86 m (measured), deepest dive 55 m (modelled)Sep 5Sep 6, 2020 — seafloor 88 m (measured), deepest dive 50 m (modelled)Sep 10, 2020 — seafloor 185 m (measured), deepest dive 97 m (modelled)Sep 16, 2020 — seafloor 61 m (measured), deepest dive 47 m (modelled)Sep 16

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

Dives

122 m
Deepest dive
4:59
Longest dive
160
Dives
24 m
Avg dive depth
13
Sightings
91
Days first → last

Dive metrics are modelled within real depth limits — not measured

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Dive profile

modelled
075150122 mstartdive sequence (illustrative)

Depth shaped by the seafloor limit here (496 m) and the published dive-behaviour distribution. Modelled, not measured.

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Place

Where this happened · Jun 17, 2020

measured
Seafloor depth
496 m
Sea-surface temperature
10.4°C
Distance from shore
1.0 km

Across the residency · 13 sightings

measured
Seafloor depth
24 m – 496 m
Sea-surface temperature
10.4°C – 12.9°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 13 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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