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Monterey Bay

Dragon – Residency

23rd sighting in Monterey Bay
Fluke of Dragon
Dragon Confirmed in the catalog @1069
Aug 16 – Oct 24, 2022 · Monterey Bay

Monterey Bay · Aug – Oct 2022

268 m
Deepest dive
10:34
Longest dive
141
Dives
Sightings
11
Days between first and last sighting
69
Deepest dive on record
268 m · this residency

Dive stats modelled within real depth limits — not measured

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SightingSeafloorSea tempDeepest dive (modelled)
Aug 16, 2022806 m15.5°C105 m
Sep 21, 202263 m16.0°C20 m
Sep 22, 2022567 m16.2°C37 m
Oct 11, 2022567 m15.3°C88 m
Oct 11, 202292 m15.1°C63 m
Oct 14, 2022104 m15.3°C84 m
Oct 14, 2022567 m15.3°C268 m
Oct 17, 2022501 m14.5°C89 m
Oct 18, 2022138 m14.4°C23 m
Oct 19, 2022325 m14.7°C68 m
Oct 24, 202250 m13.6°C38 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 16, 2022 — seafloor 806 m (measured), deepest dive 105 m (modelled)Aug 16Sep 21, 2022 — seafloor 63 m (measured), deepest dive 20 m (modelled)Sep 21Sep 22, 2022 — seafloor 567 m (measured), deepest dive 37 m (modelled)Sep 22Oct 11, 2022 — seafloor 567 m (measured), deepest dive 88 m (modelled)Oct 11Oct 11, 2022 — seafloor 92 m (measured), deepest dive 63 m (modelled)Oct 11Oct 14, 2022 — seafloor 104 m (measured), deepest dive 84 m (modelled)Oct 14Oct 14, 2022 — seafloor 567 m (measured), deepest dive 268 m (modelled)Oct 14Oct 17, 2022 — seafloor 501 m (measured), deepest dive 89 m (modelled)Oct 17Oct 18, 2022 — seafloor 138 m (measured), deepest dive 23 m (modelled)Oct 18Oct 19, 2022 — seafloor 325 m (measured), deepest dive 68 m (modelled)Oct 19Oct 24, 2022 — seafloor 50 m (measured), deepest dive 38 m (modelled)Oct 24

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

Dives

268 m
Deepest dive
10:34
Longest dive
141
Dives
26 m
Avg dive depth
11
Sightings
69
Days first → last

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Dive profile

modelled
0150300268 mstartdive sequence (illustrative)

Depth shaped by the seafloor limit here (567 m) and the published dive-behaviour distribution. Modelled, not measured.

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Place

Where this happened · Oct 14, 2022

measured
Seafloor depth
567 m
Sea-surface temperature
15.3°C
Distance from shore
16.0 km

Across the residency · 11 sightings

measured
Seafloor depth
50 m – 806 m
Sea-surface temperature
13.6°C – 16.2°C
Distance from shore
3.0 km – 19.0 km

Sources: GEBCO seafloor grid · NASA JPL MUR sea temperature · PacIOOS coastline distance

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Source records

This activity is assembled from 11 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.

The photographs and fluke identifications behind every sighting are the work of the contributing observers — the citizen scientists, naturalists and operators who logged them, each named in the underlying GBIF occurrence record. Every activity links out to its source encounters on Happywhale. Basemaps © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL).

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