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Glacier Bay & Icy Strait

Starsky Balaena Beckert – Residency

29th sighting in Glacier Bay & Icy Strait
Fluke of Starsky Balaena Beckert
Starsky Balaena Beckert Confirmed in the catalog @18559
Jun 26 – Jul 11, 2024 · Glacier Bay & Icy Strait

Glacier Bay & Icy Strait · Jun – Jul 2024

142 m
Deepest dive
3:35
Longest dive
20
Dives
Sightings
2
Days between first and last sighting
15
Deepest dive on record
142 m · this residency

Dive stats modelled within real depth limits — not measured

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SightingSeafloorSea tempDeepest dive (modelled)
Jun 26, 2024184 m—142 m
Jul 11, 202479 m10.1°C50 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 26, 2024 — seafloor 184 m (measured), deepest dive 142 m (modelled)Jun 26Jul 11, 2024 — seafloor 79 m (measured), deepest dive 50 m (modelled)Jul 11

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

Dives

142 m
Deepest dive
3:35
Longest dive
20
Dives
29 m
Avg dive depth
2
Sightings
15
Days first → last

Dive metrics are modelled within real depth limits — not measured

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Dive profile

modelled
075150142 mstartdive sequence (illustrative)

Depth shaped by the seafloor limit here (184 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 · Jun 26, 2024

measured
Seafloor depth
184 m
Sea-surface temperature
—
Distance from shore
—

Across the residency · 2 sightings

measured
Seafloor depth
79 m – 184 m
Sea-surface temperature
10.1°C
Distance from shore
—

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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