Big Blue – Residency
8th sighting in Antarctic Peninsula
Big Blue @135301
Jan 17 – Mar 16, 2025 · Antarctic Peninsula
Antarctic Peninsula · Jan – Mar 2025
135 m
Deepest dive
4:24
Longest dive
89
Dives
- Sightings
- 8
- Days between first and last sighting
- 58
- Deepest dive on record
- 135 m · this residency
Dive stats modelled within real depth limits — not measured
Get actual dive data with Risa Deep →| Sighting | Seafloor | Sea temp | Deepest dive (modelled) |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jan 17, 2025 | 111 m | — | 47 m |
| Jan 22, 2025 | 78 m | — | 42 m |
| Feb 15, 2025 | 102 m | — | 90 m |
| Feb 18, 2025 | 58 m | — | 51 m |
| Feb 21, 2025 | 10 m | — | 9 m |
| Feb 27, 2025 | 158 m | — | 135 m |
| Mar 1, 2025 | 52 m | — | 47 m |
| Mar 16, 2025 | 119 m | — | 19 m |
Seafloor and sea temperature measured · ✳ dives modelled
Deepest dive against the seafloor, per sighting
Seafloor · measured Deepest dive · modelledDepth runs down from the surface. The modelled dive never passes the measured seafloor at that sighting.
Dives
135 m
Deepest dive
4:24
Longest dive
89
Dives
21 m
Avg dive depth
8
Sightings
58
Days first → last
Dive metrics are modelled within real depth limits — not measured
Get actual dive data with Risa Deep →Dive profile
modelledDepth shaped by the seafloor limit here (158 m) and the published dive-behaviour distribution. Modelled, not measured.
Deep Effort Score
DeepPlace
Where this happened · Feb 27, 2025
measured- Seafloor depth
- 158 m
- Sea-surface temperature
- —
- Distance from shore
- 1.0 km
Across the residency · 8 sightings
measured- Seafloor depth
- 10 m – 158 m
- Sea-surface temperature
- —
- Distance from shore
- 1.0 km – 3.0 km
Sources: GEBCO seafloor grid · PacIOOS coastline distance
Source records
This activity is assembled from 8 catalogued encounters on Happywhale.