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Glacier Bay & Icy Strait

Starsky Balaena Beckert – Residency

34th sighting in Glacier Bay & Icy Strait
Fluke of Starsky Balaena Beckert
Starsky Balaena Beckert Confirmed in the catalog @18559
Jun 9 – Sep 2, 2025 · Glacier Bay & Icy Strait

Glacier Bay & Icy Strait · Jun – Sep 2025

66 m
Deepest dive
2:50
Longest dive
56
Dives
Sightings
5
Days between first and last sighting
85

Dive stats modelled within real depth limits — not measured

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SightingSeafloorSea tempDeepest dive (modelled)
Jun 9, 20257 m8.5°C6 m
Jun 10, 202544 m8.7°C36 m
Jul 19, 202538 m12.7°C26 m
Sep 1, 2025106 m15.2°C33 m
Sep 2, 202578 m15.0°C66 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 9, 2025 — seafloor 7 m (measured), deepest dive 6 m (modelled)Jun 9Jun 10, 2025 — seafloor 44 m (measured), deepest dive 36 m (modelled)Jun 10Jul 19, 2025 — seafloor 38 m (measured), deepest dive 26 m (modelled)Jul 19Sep 1, 2025 — seafloor 106 m (measured), deepest dive 33 m (modelled)Sep 1Sep 2, 2025 — seafloor 78 m (measured), deepest dive 66 m (modelled)Sep 2

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

Dives

66 m
Deepest dive
2:50
Longest dive
56
Dives
15 m
Avg dive depth
5
Sightings
85
Days first → last

Dive metrics are modelled within real depth limits — not measured

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Dive profile

modelled
05010066 mstartdive sequence (illustrative)

Depth shaped by the seafloor limit here (78 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 · Sep 2, 2025

measured
Seafloor depth
78 m
Sea-surface temperature
15.0°C
Distance from shore
—

Across the residency · 5 sightings

measured
Seafloor depth
7 m – 106 m
Sea-surface temperature
8.5°C – 15.2°C
Distance from shore
1.0 km – 3.0 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.

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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