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Glacier Bay & Icy Strait

Peltegial – Residency

16th sighting in Glacier Bay & Icy Strait
Fluke of Peltegial
Peltegial Confirmed in the catalog @7609
Jun 9 – Oct 1, 2026 · Glacier Bay & Icy Strait

Icy Strait, Early Summer Glory

Silt-milk water, herring stacked thick, cameras finding my flukes all month.

267 m
Deepest dive
8:26
Longest dive
114
Dives
Sightings
9
Days between first and last sighting
113
Deepest dive on record
267 m · this residency

Dive stats modelled within real depth limits — not measured

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SightingSeafloorSea tempDeepest dive (modelled)
Jun 9, 202680 m9.9°C51 m
Jun 16, 202687 m9.5°C80 m
Jun 17, 2026133 m9.6°C104 m
Jun 18, 2026241 m9.5°C29 m
Jun 21, 2026556 m11.2°C267 m
Jun 22, 2026197 m11.4°C102 m
Jun 24, 2026172 m11.5°C95 m
Jul 3, 202681 m11.4°C62 m
Oct 1, 2026207 m—32 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 9, 2026 — seafloor 80 m (measured), deepest dive 51 m (modelled)Jun 9Jun 16, 2026 — seafloor 87 m (measured), deepest dive 80 m (modelled)Jun 16Jun 17, 2026 — seafloor 133 m (measured), deepest dive 104 m (modelled)Jun 17Jun 18, 2026 — seafloor 241 m (measured), deepest dive 29 m (modelled)Jun 18Jun 21, 2026 — seafloor 556 m (measured), deepest dive 267 m (modelled)Jun 21Jun 22, 2026 — seafloor 197 m (measured), deepest dive 102 m (modelled)Jun 22Jun 24, 2026 — seafloor 172 m (measured), deepest dive 95 m (modelled)Jun 24Jul 3, 2026 — seafloor 81 m (measured), deepest dive 62 m (modelled)Jul 3Oct 1, 2026 — seafloor 207 m (measured), deepest dive 32 m (modelled)Oct 1

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

Dives

267 m
Deepest dive
8:26
Longest dive
114
Dives
30 m
Avg dive depth
9
Sightings
113
Days first → last

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Dive profile

modelled
0150300267 mstartdive sequence (illustrative)

Depth shaped by the seafloor limit here (556 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 · Jun 21, 2026

measured
Seafloor depth
556 m
Sea-surface temperature
11.2°C
Distance from shore
2.0 km

Across the residency · 9 sightings

measured
Seafloor depth
80 m – 556 m
Sea-surface temperature
9.5°C – 11.5°C
Distance from shore
1.0 km – 6.0 km

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

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Source records

This activity is assembled from 9 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.

The photographs and fluke identifications behind every sighting are the work of the contributing observers — the citizen scientists, naturalists and operators who logged them, each named in the underlying GBIF occurrence record. Every activity links out to its source encounters on Happywhale. Basemaps © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL).

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