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Glacier Bay & Icy Strait

WidowMaker – Residency

14th sighting in Glacier Bay & Icy Strait
Fluke of WidowMaker
WidowMaker Confirmed in the catalog @6371
Jun 2 – Aug 13, 2024 · Glacier Bay & Icy Strait

Glacier Bay & Icy Strait · Jun – Aug 2024

383 m
Deepest dive
13:11
Longest dive
196
Dives
Sightings
19
Days between first and last sighting
72
Deepest dive on record
383 m · this residency

Dive stats modelled within real depth limits — not measured

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SightingSeafloorSea tempDeepest dive (modelled)
Jun 2, 2024134 m7.8°C100 m
Jun 18, 202449 m11.0°C43 m
Jun 29, 2024334 m10.3°C78 m
Jul 3, 202457 m10.3°C44 m
Jul 3, 202430 m10.3°C19 m
Jul 5, 202411 m10.7°C10 m
Jul 10, 202435 m12.4°C26 m
Jul 13, 202476 m11.9°C39 m
Jul 14, 202416 m12.0°C12 m
Jul 14, 2024133 m12.0°C85 m
Jul 15, 2024133 m11.9°C88 m
Jul 15, 2024132 m11.8°C73 m
Jul 15, 202436 m11.7°C22 m
Jul 16, 2024-59 m12.0°C—
Jul 17, 202455 m12.5°C45 m
Jul 19, 2024124 m12.9°C78 m
Jul 20, 2024458 m12.7°C383 m
Jul 25, 2024171 m11.8°C69 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 2, 2024 — seafloor 134 m (measured), deepest dive 100 m (modelled)Jun 2Jun 18, 2024 — seafloor 49 m (measured), deepest dive 43 m (modelled)Jun 29, 2024 — seafloor 334 m (measured), deepest dive 78 m (modelled)Jul 3, 2024 — seafloor 57 m (measured), deepest dive 44 m (modelled)Jul 3, 2024 — seafloor 30 m (measured), deepest dive 19 m (modelled)Jul 3Jul 5, 2024 — seafloor 11 m (measured), deepest dive 10 m (modelled)Jul 10, 2024 — seafloor 35 m (measured), deepest dive 26 m (modelled)Jul 13, 2024 — seafloor 76 m (measured), deepest dive 39 m (modelled)Jul 14, 2024 — seafloor 16 m (measured), deepest dive 12 m (modelled)Jul 14Jul 14, 2024 — seafloor 133 m (measured), deepest dive 85 m (modelled)Jul 15, 2024 — seafloor 133 m (measured), deepest dive 88 m (modelled)Jul 15, 2024 — seafloor 132 m (measured), deepest dive 73 m (modelled)Jul 15, 2024 — seafloor 36 m (measured), deepest dive 22 m (modelled)Jul 15Jul 16, 2024 — seafloor -59 m (measured), deepest dive — (modelled)Jul 17, 2024 — seafloor 55 m (measured), deepest dive 45 m (modelled)Jul 19, 2024 — seafloor 124 m (measured), deepest dive 78 m (modelled)Jul 20, 2024 — seafloor 458 m (measured), deepest dive 383 m (modelled)Jul 20Jul 25, 2024 — seafloor 171 m (measured), deepest dive 69 m (modelled)Aug 13, 2024 — seafloor 95 m (measured), deepest dive 62 m (modelled)

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

Dives

383 m
Deepest dive
13:11
Longest dive
196
Dives
23 m
Avg dive depth
19
Sightings
72
Days first → last

Dive metrics are modelled within real depth limits — not measured

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Dive profile

modelled
0200400383 mstartdive sequence (illustrative)

Depth shaped by the seafloor limit here (458 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 20, 2024

measured
Seafloor depth
458 m
Sea-surface temperature
12.7°C
Distance from shore
3.0 km

Across the residency · 19 sightings

measured
Seafloor depth
-59 m – 458 m
Sea-surface temperature
7.8°C – 12.9°C
Distance from shore
1.0 km – 4.0 km

Sources: GEBCO seafloor grid · NASA JPL MUR sea temperature · PacIOOS coastline distance

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Source records

This activity is assembled from 19 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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