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Glacier Bay & Icy Strait

Victorious – Residency

15th sighting in Glacier Bay & Icy Strait
Fluke of Victorious
Victorious Confirmed in the catalog @6411
May 13 – Sep 1, 2026 · Glacier Bay & Icy Strait

Green Water, Good Company

Herring running thick in the cold channels — I ate like it mattered.

65 m
Deepest dive
2:23
Longest dive
62
Dives
Sightings
4
Days between first and last sighting
111

Dive stats modelled within real depth limits — not measured

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SightingSeafloorSea tempDeepest dive (modelled)
May 13, 202693 m8.3°C64 m
Jul 8, 2026377 m12.1°C65 m
Aug 30, 2026122 m14.2°C57 m
Sep 1, 202660 m14.0°C50 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 13, 2026 — seafloor 93 m (measured), deepest dive 64 m (modelled)May 13Jul 8, 2026 — seafloor 377 m (measured), deepest dive 65 m (modelled)Jul 8Aug 30, 2026 — seafloor 122 m (measured), deepest dive 57 m (modelled)Aug 30Sep 1, 2026 — seafloor 60 m (measured), deepest dive 50 m (modelled)Sep 1

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

Dives

65 m
Deepest dive
2:23
Longest dive
62
Dives
23 m
Avg dive depth
4
Sightings
111
Days first → last

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Dive profile

modelled
05010065 mstartdive sequence (illustrative)

Depth shaped by the seafloor limit here (377 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 8, 2026

measured
Seafloor depth
377 m
Sea-surface temperature
12.1°C
Distance from shore
—

Across the residency · 4 sightings

measured
Seafloor depth
60 m – 377 m
Sea-surface temperature
8.3°C – 14.2°C
Distance from shore
1.0 km – 2.0 km

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

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Source records

This activity is assembled from 4 catalogued encounters on Happywhale.

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