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Glacier Bay & Icy Strait

Starsky Balaena Beckert – Residency

7th sighting in Glacier Bay & Icy Strait
Fluke of Starsky Balaena Beckert
Starsky Balaena Beckert Confirmed in the catalog @18559
Aug 17 – 21, 2020 · Glacier Bay & Icy Strait

Glacier Bay & Icy Strait · Aug 2020

48 m
Deepest dive
1:47
Longest dive
12
Dives
Sightings
2
Days between first and last sighting
4

Dive stats modelled within real depth limits — not measured

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SightingSeafloorSea tempDeepest dive (modelled)
Aug 17, 202084 m11.5°C24 m
Aug 21, 202057 m11.2°C48 m

Seafloor and sea temperature measured · ✳ dives modelled

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Deepest dive against the seafloor, per sighting

Seafloor · measured Deepest dive · modelled
Aug 17, 2020 — seafloor 84 m (measured), deepest dive 24 m (modelled)Aug 17Aug 21, 2020 — seafloor 57 m (measured), deepest dive 48 m (modelled)Aug 21

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

Dives

48 m
Deepest dive
1:47
Longest dive
12
Dives
19 m
Avg dive depth
2
Sightings
4
Days first → last

Dive metrics are modelled within real depth limits — not measured

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Dive profile

modelled
0255048 mstartdive sequence (illustrative)

Depth shaped by the seafloor limit here (57 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 21, 2020

measured
Seafloor depth
57 m
Sea-surface temperature
11.2°C
Distance from shore
2.0 km

Across the residency · 2 sightings

measured
Seafloor depth
57 m – 84 m
Sea-surface temperature
11.2°C – 11.5°C
Distance from shore
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 2 catalogued encounters on Happywhale.

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