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Glacier Bay & Icy Strait

Helix – Residency

54th sighting in Glacier Bay & Icy Strait
Fluke of Helix
Helix Confirmed in the catalog @83824
May 28 – Sep 19, 2024 · Glacier Bay & Icy Strait

Glacier Bay & Icy Strait · May – Sep 2024

120 m
Deepest dive
5:17
Longest dive
479
Dives
Sightings
45
Days between first and last sighting
114
Deepest dive on record
120 m · this residency

Dive stats modelled within real depth limits — not measured

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SightingSeafloorSea tempDeepest dive (modelled)
May 28, 2024138 m7.9°C120 m
Jun 15, 202481 m11.4°C47 m
Jun 15, 2024122 m11.4°C93 m
Jun 19, 2024120 m11.8°C71 m
Jun 20, 202491 m10.7°C83 m
Jun 21, 2024113 m10.6°C50 m
Jun 26, 202498 m12.5°C22 m
Jun 27, 2024110 m12.4°C85 m
Jun 27, 202495 m12.4°C62 m
Jun 28, 202491 m13.2°C54 m
Jun 29, 2024122 m13.1°C35 m
Jul 2, 2024114 m13.0°C101 m
Jul 3, 202493 m13.0°C38 m
Jul 4, 202499 m12.9°C53 m
Jul 6, 2024120 m12.9°C75 m
Jul 7, 202492 m12.7°C27 m
Jul 7, 202497 m12.7°C40 m
Jul 8, 202491 m12.8°C72 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 28, 2024 — seafloor 138 m (measured), deepest dive 120 m (modelled)May 28Jun 15, 2024 — seafloor 81 m (measured), deepest dive 47 m (modelled)Jun 15, 2024 — seafloor 122 m (measured), deepest dive 93 m (modelled)Jun 19, 2024 — seafloor 120 m (measured), deepest dive 71 m (modelled)Jun 20, 2024 — seafloor 91 m (measured), deepest dive 83 m (modelled)Jun 21, 2024 — seafloor 113 m (measured), deepest dive 50 m (modelled)Jun 26, 2024 — seafloor 98 m (measured), deepest dive 22 m (modelled)Jun 27, 2024 — seafloor 110 m (measured), deepest dive 85 m (modelled)Jun 27, 2024 — seafloor 95 m (measured), deepest dive 62 m (modelled)Jun 27Jun 28, 2024 — seafloor 91 m (measured), deepest dive 54 m (modelled)Jun 29, 2024 — seafloor 122 m (measured), deepest dive 35 m (modelled)Jul 2, 2024 — seafloor 114 m (measured), deepest dive 101 m (modelled)Jul 3, 2024 — seafloor 93 m (measured), deepest dive 38 m (modelled)Jul 4, 2024 — seafloor 99 m (measured), deepest dive 53 m (modelled)Jul 6, 2024 — seafloor 120 m (measured), deepest dive 75 m (modelled)Jul 7, 2024 — seafloor 92 m (measured), deepest dive 27 m (modelled)Jul 7, 2024 — seafloor 97 m (measured), deepest dive 40 m (modelled)Jul 7Jul 8, 2024 — seafloor 91 m (measured), deepest dive 72 m (modelled)Jul 9, 2024 — seafloor 90 m (measured), deepest dive 36 m (modelled)Jul 11, 2024 — seafloor 88 m (measured), deepest dive 50 m (modelled)Jul 20, 2024 — seafloor 112 m (measured), deepest dive 80 m (modelled)Jul 22, 2024 — seafloor 109 m (measured), deepest dive 89 m (modelled)Jul 23, 2024 — seafloor 142 m (measured), deepest dive 43 m (modelled)Jul 28, 2024 — seafloor 132 m (measured), deepest dive 46 m (modelled)Jul 28, 2024 — seafloor 108 m (measured), deepest dive 97 m (modelled)Jul 28Jul 29, 2024 — seafloor 87 m (measured), deepest dive 65 m (modelled)Jul 30, 2024 — seafloor 90 m (measured), deepest dive 46 m (modelled)Aug 1, 2024 — seafloor 101 m (measured), deepest dive 90 m (modelled)Aug 2, 2024 — seafloor 117 m (measured), deepest dive 46 m (modelled)Aug 5, 2024 — seafloor 135 m (measured), deepest dive 62 m (modelled)Aug 6, 2024 — seafloor 114 m (measured), deepest dive 56 m (modelled)Aug 9, 2024 — seafloor 90 m (measured), deepest dive 20 m (modelled)Aug 10, 2024 — seafloor 102 m (measured), deepest dive 47 m (modelled)Aug 10Aug 11, 2024 — seafloor 126 m (measured), deepest dive 85 m (modelled)Aug 12, 2024 — seafloor 124 m (measured), deepest dive 52 m (modelled)Aug 16, 2024 — seafloor 96 m (measured), deepest dive 63 m (modelled)Aug 22, 2024 — seafloor 74 m (measured), deepest dive 13 m (modelled)Aug 25, 2024 — seafloor 97 m (measured), deepest dive 62 m (modelled)Aug 26, 2024 — seafloor 119 m (measured), deepest dive 106 m (modelled)Aug 26, 2024 — seafloor 112 m (measured), deepest dive 81 m (modelled)Sep 2, 2024 — seafloor 123 m (measured), deepest dive 79 m (modelled)Sep 2Sep 3, 2024 — seafloor 143 m (measured), deepest dive 71 m (modelled)Sep 4, 2024 — seafloor 128 m (measured), deepest dive 91 m (modelled)Sep 16, 2024 — seafloor 57 m (measured), deepest dive 38 m (modelled)Sep 19, 2024 — seafloor 84 m (measured), deepest dive 69 m (modelled)

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

Dives

120 m
Deepest dive
5:17
Longest dive
479
Dives
25 m
Avg dive depth
45
Sightings
114
Days first → last

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Dive profile

modelled
075150120 mstartdive sequence (illustrative)

Depth shaped by the seafloor limit here (138 m) and the published dive-behaviour distribution. Modelled, not measured.

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Place

Where this happened · May 28, 2024

measured
Seafloor depth
138 m
Sea-surface temperature
7.9°C
Distance from shore
1.0 km

Across the residency · 45 sightings

measured
Seafloor depth
57 m – 143 m
Sea-surface temperature
7.9°C – 14.9°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 45 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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