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Glacier Bay & Icy Strait

Starsky Balaena Beckert – Residency

47th sighting in Glacier Bay & Icy Strait
Fluke of Starsky Balaena Beckert
Starsky Balaena Beckert Confirmed in the catalog @18559
Jun 20 – Sep 2, 2026 · Glacier Bay & Icy Strait

Home Water, Herring Season

Whole summer in the green shallows, and every gravel beach knew my sound.

111 m
Deepest dive
4:04
Longest dive
208
Dives
Sightings
15
Days between first and last sighting
74

Dive stats modelled within real depth limits — not measured

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SightingSeafloorSea tempDeepest dive (modelled)
Jun 20, 202653 m11.3°C43 m
Jun 25, 2026133 m11.6°C105 m
Jun 30, 202666 m11.8°C60 m
Jul 13, 2026135 m13.0°C63 m
Jul 19, 202684 m13.1°C57 m
Jul 20, 202673 m13.1°C48 m
Jul 25, 202650 m13.3°C46 m
Jul 27, 2026100 m13.1°C32 m
Jul 28, 202672 m13.3°C66 m
Jul 29, 202665 m13.2°C49 m
Aug 5, 202671 m14.2°C40 m
Aug 8, 202644 m13.6°C36 m
Aug 9, 2026110 m14.5°C31 m
Aug 11, 2026133 m14.5°C111 m
Sep 2, 2026133 m13.7°C49 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 20, 2026 — seafloor 53 m (measured), deepest dive 43 m (modelled)Jun 20Jun 25, 2026 — seafloor 133 m (measured), deepest dive 105 m (modelled)Jun 30, 2026 — seafloor 66 m (measured), deepest dive 60 m (modelled)Jul 13, 2026 — seafloor 135 m (measured), deepest dive 63 m (modelled)Jul 13Jul 19, 2026 — seafloor 84 m (measured), deepest dive 57 m (modelled)Jul 20, 2026 — seafloor 73 m (measured), deepest dive 48 m (modelled)Jul 25, 2026 — seafloor 50 m (measured), deepest dive 46 m (modelled)Jul 25Jul 27, 2026 — seafloor 100 m (measured), deepest dive 32 m (modelled)Jul 28, 2026 — seafloor 72 m (measured), deepest dive 66 m (modelled)Jul 29, 2026 — seafloor 65 m (measured), deepest dive 49 m (modelled)Jul 29Aug 5, 2026 — seafloor 71 m (measured), deepest dive 40 m (modelled)Aug 8, 2026 — seafloor 44 m (measured), deepest dive 36 m (modelled)Aug 9, 2026 — seafloor 110 m (measured), deepest dive 31 m (modelled)Aug 9Aug 11, 2026 — seafloor 133 m (measured), deepest dive 111 m (modelled)Sep 2, 2026 — seafloor 133 m (measured), deepest dive 49 m (modelled)

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

Dives

111 m
Deepest dive
4:04
Longest dive
208
Dives
22 m
Avg dive depth
15
Sightings
74
Days first → last

Dive metrics are modelled within real depth limits — not measured

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Dive profile

modelled
075150111 mstartdive sequence (illustrative)

Depth shaped by the seafloor limit here (133 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 · Aug 11, 2026

measured
Seafloor depth
133 m
Sea-surface temperature
14.5°C
Distance from shore
1.0 km

Across the residency · 15 sightings

measured
Seafloor depth
44 m – 135 m
Sea-surface temperature
11.3°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 15 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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