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Glacier Bay & Icy Strait

Rasta – Residency

11th sighting in Glacier Bay & Icy Strait
Fluke of Rasta
Rasta Confirmed in the catalog @6451
Apr 29 – Sep 4, 2018 · Glacier Bay & Icy Strait

Glacier Bay & Icy Strait · Apr – Sep 2018

172 m
Deepest dive
6:26
Longest dive
151
Dives
Sightings
12
Days between first and last sighting
128

Dive stats modelled within real depth limits — not measured

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SightingSeafloorSea tempDeepest dive (modelled)
Apr 29, 2018224 m5.5°C13 m
Apr 29, 2018159 m5.6°C68 m
Apr 30, 2018224 m5.7°C172 m
May 3, 2018194 m6.0°C48 m
Jun 29, 2018146 m11.2°C100 m
Jul 24, 201879 m11.7°C48 m
Jul 29, 2018606 m14.4°C115 m
Aug 1, 2018100 m12.4°C67 m
Aug 15, 2018558 m12.0°C106 m
Aug 15, 2018199 m12.0°C36 m
Aug 23, 2018134 m13.9°C77 m
Sep 4, 2018231 m12.2°C70 m

Seafloor and sea temperature measured · ✳ dives modelled

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Deepest dive against the seafloor, per sighting

Seafloor · measured Deepest dive · modelled
Apr 29, 2018 — seafloor 224 m (measured), deepest dive 13 m (modelled)Apr 29Apr 29, 2018 — seafloor 159 m (measured), deepest dive 68 m (modelled)Apr 29Apr 30, 2018 — seafloor 224 m (measured), deepest dive 172 m (modelled)Apr 30May 3, 2018 — seafloor 194 m (measured), deepest dive 48 m (modelled)May 3Jun 29, 2018 — seafloor 146 m (measured), deepest dive 100 m (modelled)Jun 29Jul 24, 2018 — seafloor 79 m (measured), deepest dive 48 m (modelled)Jul 24Jul 29, 2018 — seafloor 606 m (measured), deepest dive 115 m (modelled)Jul 29Aug 1, 2018 — seafloor 100 m (measured), deepest dive 67 m (modelled)Aug 1Aug 15, 2018 — seafloor 558 m (measured), deepest dive 106 m (modelled)Aug 15Aug 15, 2018 — seafloor 199 m (measured), deepest dive 36 m (modelled)Aug 15Aug 23, 2018 — seafloor 134 m (measured), deepest dive 77 m (modelled)Aug 23Sep 4, 2018 — seafloor 231 m (measured), deepest dive 70 m (modelled)Sep 4

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

Dives

172 m
Deepest dive
6:26
Longest dive
151
Dives
26 m
Avg dive depth
12
Sightings
128
Days first → last

Dive metrics are modelled within real depth limits — not measured

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Dive profile

modelled
0100200172 mstartdive sequence (illustrative)

Depth shaped by the seafloor limit here (224 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 · Apr 30, 2018

measured
Seafloor depth
224 m
Sea-surface temperature
5.7°C
Distance from shore
2.0 km

Across the residency · 12 sightings

measured
Seafloor depth
79 m – 606 m
Sea-surface temperature
5.5°C – 14.4°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 12 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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