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Glacier Bay & Icy Strait

Starsky Balaena Beckert – Residency

5th sighting in Glacier Bay & Icy Strait
Fluke of Starsky Balaena Beckert
Starsky Balaena Beckert Confirmed in the catalog @18559
Jul 16 – Aug 27, 2019 · Glacier Bay & Icy Strait

Glacier Bay & Icy Strait · Jul – Aug 2019

108 m
Deepest dive
4:47
Longest dive
100
Dives
Sightings
5
Days between first and last sighting
42

Dive stats modelled within real depth limits — not measured

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SightingSeafloorSea tempDeepest dive (modelled)
Jul 16, 201960 m14.7°C16 m
Jul 17, 201948 m12.8°C40 m
Jul 25, 2019154 m13.9°C89 m
Aug 5, 201930 m15.3°C26 m
Aug 27, 2019134 m12.0°C108 m

Seafloor and sea temperature measured · ✳ dives modelled

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Deepest dive against the seafloor, per sighting

Seafloor · measured Deepest dive · modelled
Jul 16, 2019 — seafloor 60 m (measured), deepest dive 16 m (modelled)Jul 16Jul 17, 2019 — seafloor 48 m (measured), deepest dive 40 m (modelled)Jul 17Jul 25, 2019 — seafloor 154 m (measured), deepest dive 89 m (modelled)Jul 25Aug 5, 2019 — seafloor 30 m (measured), deepest dive 26 m (modelled)Aug 5Aug 27, 2019 — seafloor 134 m (measured), deepest dive 108 m (modelled)Aug 27

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

Dives

108 m
Deepest dive
4:47
Longest dive
100
Dives
22 m
Avg dive depth
5
Sightings
42
Days first → last

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Dive profile

modelled
075150108 mstartdive sequence (illustrative)

Depth shaped by the seafloor limit here (134 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 27, 2019

measured
Seafloor depth
134 m
Sea-surface temperature
12.0°C
Distance from shore
1.0 km

Across the residency · 5 sightings

measured
Seafloor depth
30 m – 154 m
Sea-surface temperature
12.0°C – 15.3°C
Distance from shore
1.0 km

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

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Source records

This activity is assembled from 5 catalogued encounters on Happywhale.

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