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Antarctic Peninsula

BTBEL-Mn_1c_028 – Residency

6th sighting in Antarctic Peninsula
Fluke of BTBEL-Mn_1c_028
BTBEL-Mn_1c_028 Confirmed in the catalog @6802
Jan 19 – Mar 28, 2026 · Antarctic Peninsula

Krill Thick, Life Good

Mouth full of krill, familiar faces nearby, whole summer sorted.

53 m
Deepest dive
2:09
Longest dive
20
Dives
Sightings
4
Days between first and last sighting
67
Deepest dive on record
53 m · this residency

Dive stats modelled within real depth limits — not measured

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SightingSeafloorSea tempDeepest dive (modelled)
Jan 19, 2026-112 m3.1°C—
Mar 9, 2026-70 m——
Mar 13, 2026146 m—35 m
Mar 28, 2026116 m1.4°C53 m

Seafloor and sea temperature measured · ✳ dives modelled

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Deepest dive against the seafloor, per sighting

Seafloor · measured Deepest dive · modelled
Jan 19, 2026 — seafloor -112 m (measured), deepest dive — (modelled)Jan 19Mar 9, 2026 — seafloor -70 m (measured), deepest dive — (modelled)Mar 9Mar 13, 2026 — seafloor 146 m (measured), deepest dive 35 m (modelled)Mar 13Mar 28, 2026 — seafloor 116 m (measured), deepest dive 53 m (modelled)Mar 28

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

Dives

53 m
Deepest dive
2:09
Longest dive
20
Dives
19 m
Avg dive depth
4
Sightings
67
Days first → last

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Dive profile

modelled
05010053 mstartdive sequence (illustrative)

Depth shaped by the seafloor limit here (116 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 · Mar 28, 2026

measured
Seafloor depth
116 m
Sea-surface temperature
1.4°C
Distance from shore
—

Across the residency · 4 sightings

measured
Seafloor depth
-112 m – 146 m
Sea-surface temperature
1.4°C – 3.1°C
Distance from shore
1.0 km – 2.0 km

Sources: GEBCO seafloor grid · NOAA OISST sea temperature · PacIOOS coastline distance

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Source records

This activity is assembled from 4 catalogued encounters on Happywhale.

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