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Glacier Bay & Icy Strait

Cimmerian – Residency

6th sighting in Glacier Bay & Icy Strait
Fluke of Cimmerian
Cimmerian Confirmed in the catalog @6589
Jul 21 – Sep 21, 2012 · Glacier Bay & Icy Strait

Glacier Bay & Icy Strait · Jul – Sep 2012

159 m
Deepest dive
8:01
Longest dive
72
Dives
Sightings
3
Days between first and last sighting
62
Deepest dive on record
159 m · this residency

Dive stats modelled within real depth limits — not measured

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SightingSeafloorSea tempDeepest dive (modelled)
Jul 21, 2012116 m12.5°C78 m
Jul 23, 2012176 m12.4°C159 m
Sep 21, 2012424 m10.4°C33 m

Seafloor and sea temperature measured · ✳ dives modelled

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Deepest dive against the seafloor, per sighting

Seafloor · measured Deepest dive · modelled
Jul 21, 2012 — seafloor 116 m (measured), deepest dive 78 m (modelled)Jul 21Jul 23, 2012 — seafloor 176 m (measured), deepest dive 159 m (modelled)Jul 23Sep 21, 2012 — seafloor 424 m (measured), deepest dive 33 m (modelled)Sep 21

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

Dives

159 m
Deepest dive
8:01
Longest dive
72
Dives
27 m
Avg dive depth
3
Sightings
62
Days first → last

Dive metrics are modelled within real depth limits — not measured

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Dive profile

modelled
0100200159 mstartdive sequence (illustrative)

Depth shaped by the seafloor limit here (176 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 23, 2012

measured
Seafloor depth
176 m
Sea-surface temperature
12.4°C
Distance from shore
1.0 km

Across the residency · 3 sightings

measured
Seafloor depth
116 m – 424 m
Sea-surface temperature
10.4°C – 12.5°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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