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Monterey Bay

Beulah Balbricker – Residency

38th sighting in Monterey Bay
Fluke of Beulah Balbricker
Beulah Balbricker Confirmed in the catalog @537
Mar 21 – Jun 15, 2025 · Monterey Bay

Monterey Bay · Mar – Jun 2025

69 m
Deepest dive
3:02
Longest dive
79
Dives
Sightings
5
Days between first and last sighting
86

Dive stats modelled within real depth limits — not measured

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SightingSeafloorSea tempDeepest dive (modelled)
Mar 21, 202599 m11.7°C41 m
Apr 10, 202593 m12.9°C69 m
Apr 28, 202567 m12.8°C57 m
Jun 15, 202561 m14.0°C53 m
Jun 15, 2025146 m14.1°C65 m

Seafloor and sea temperature measured · ✳ dives modelled

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Deepest dive against the seafloor, per sighting

Seafloor · measured Deepest dive · modelled
Mar 21, 2025 — seafloor 99 m (measured), deepest dive 41 m (modelled)Mar 21Apr 10, 2025 — seafloor 93 m (measured), deepest dive 69 m (modelled)Apr 10Apr 28, 2025 — seafloor 67 m (measured), deepest dive 57 m (modelled)Apr 28Jun 15, 2025 — seafloor 61 m (measured), deepest dive 53 m (modelled)Jun 15Jun 15, 2025 — seafloor 146 m (measured), deepest dive 65 m (modelled)Jun 15

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

Dives

69 m
Deepest dive
3:02
Longest dive
79
Dives
19 m
Avg dive depth
5
Sightings
86
Days first → last

Dive metrics are modelled within real depth limits — not measured

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Dive profile

modelled
05010069 mstartdive sequence (illustrative)

Depth shaped by the seafloor limit here (93 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 · Apr 10, 2025

measured
Seafloor depth
93 m
Sea-surface temperature
12.9°C
Distance from shore
4.0 km

Across the residency · 5 sightings

measured
Seafloor depth
61 m – 146 m
Sea-surface temperature
11.7°C – 14.1°C
Distance from shore
2.0 km – 7.0 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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