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Monterey Bay

CRC-21662 – Residency

12th sighting in Monterey Bay
Fluke of CRC-21662
CRC-21662 Confirmed in the catalog @106025
Aug 23 – Sep 15, 2023 · Monterey Bay

Monterey Bay · Aug – Sep 2023

157 m
Deepest dive
5:43
Longest dive
156
Dives
Sightings
12
Days between first and last sighting
23
Deepest dive on record
157 m · this residency

Dive stats modelled within real depth limits — not measured

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SightingSeafloorSea tempDeepest dive (modelled)
Aug 23, 202381 m—41 m
Aug 26, 2023254 m—145 m
Aug 26, 2023102 m—37 m
Aug 27, 2023116 m—69 m
Aug 28, 2023201 m—107 m
Aug 31, 2023231 m—57 m
Sep 6, 2023138 m—68 m
Sep 8, 2023145 m—50 m
Sep 10, 2023283 m—157 m
Sep 11, 2023128 m—47 m
Sep 14, 202383 m—67 m
Sep 15, 2023254 m—99 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 23, 2023 — seafloor 81 m (measured), deepest dive 41 m (modelled)Aug 23Aug 26, 2023 — seafloor 254 m (measured), deepest dive 145 m (modelled)Aug 26Aug 26, 2023 — seafloor 102 m (measured), deepest dive 37 m (modelled)Aug 26Aug 27, 2023 — seafloor 116 m (measured), deepest dive 69 m (modelled)Aug 27Aug 28, 2023 — seafloor 201 m (measured), deepest dive 107 m (modelled)Aug 28Aug 31, 2023 — seafloor 231 m (measured), deepest dive 57 m (modelled)Aug 31Sep 6, 2023 — seafloor 138 m (measured), deepest dive 68 m (modelled)Sep 6Sep 8, 2023 — seafloor 145 m (measured), deepest dive 50 m (modelled)Sep 8Sep 10, 2023 — seafloor 283 m (measured), deepest dive 157 m (modelled)Sep 10Sep 11, 2023 — seafloor 128 m (measured), deepest dive 47 m (modelled)Sep 11Sep 14, 2023 — seafloor 83 m (measured), deepest dive 67 m (modelled)Sep 14Sep 15, 2023 — seafloor 254 m (measured), deepest dive 99 m (modelled)Sep 15

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

Dives

157 m
Deepest dive
5:43
Longest dive
156
Dives
28 m
Avg dive depth
12
Sightings
23
Days first → last

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Dive profile

modelled
0100200157 mstartdive sequence (illustrative)

Depth shaped by the seafloor limit here (283 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 10, 2023

measured
Seafloor depth
283 m
Sea-surface temperature
—
Distance from shore
8.0 km

Across the residency · 12 sightings

measured
Seafloor depth
81 m – 283 m
Sea-surface temperature
—
Distance from shore
2.0 km – 10.0 km

Sources: GEBCO seafloor grid · PacIOOS coastline distance

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Source records

This activity is assembled from 12 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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