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Glacier Bay & Icy Strait

Helix – Residency

4th sighting in Glacier Bay & Icy Strait
Fluke of Helix
Helix Confirmed in the catalog @83824
Jun 24 – Sep 12, 2022 · Glacier Bay & Icy Strait

Glacier Bay & Icy Strait · Jun – Sep 2022

71 m
Deepest dive
2:48
Longest dive
36
Dives
Sightings
4
Days between first and last sighting
80

Dive stats modelled within real depth limits — not measured

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SightingSeafloorSea tempDeepest dive (modelled)
Jun 24, 2022-7 m12.4°C—
Aug 22, 202285 m14.5°C40 m
Sep 8, 202297 m11.8°C71 m
Sep 12, 202296 m11.2°C57 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 24, 2022 — seafloor -7 m (measured), deepest dive — (modelled)Jun 24Aug 22, 2022 — seafloor 85 m (measured), deepest dive 40 m (modelled)Aug 22Sep 8, 2022 — seafloor 97 m (measured), deepest dive 71 m (modelled)Sep 8Sep 12, 2022 — seafloor 96 m (measured), deepest dive 57 m (modelled)Sep 12

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

Dives

71 m
Deepest dive
2:48
Longest dive
36
Dives
21 m
Avg dive depth
4
Sightings
80
Days first → last

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Dive profile

modelled
05010071 mstartdive sequence (illustrative)

Depth shaped by the seafloor limit here (97 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 · Sep 8, 2022

measured
Seafloor depth
97 m
Sea-surface temperature
11.8°C
Distance from shore
1.0 km

Across the residency · 4 sightings

measured
Seafloor depth
-7 m – 97 m
Sea-surface temperature
11.2°C – 14.5°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.

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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