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Monterey Bay

Bora – Residency

12th sighting in Monterey Bay
Fluke of Bora
Bora Confirmed in the catalog @1077
Aug 27 – Sep 29, 2018 · Monterey Bay

Monterey Bay · Aug – Sep 2018

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Deepest dive
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Longest dive
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Dives
Sightings
11
Days between first and last sighting
33

Dive stats modelled within real depth limits — not measured

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SightingSeafloorSea tempDeepest dive (modelled)
Aug 27, 201864 m16.4°C—
Aug 29, 201873 m16.5°C—
Sep 8, 201844 m15.4°C—
Sep 9, 201852 m15.1°C—
Sep 10, 2018254 m14.9°C—
Sep 24, 201859 m12.8°C—
Sep 25, 201838 m13.0°C—
Sep 26, 2018254 m13.9°C—
Sep 28, 2018101 m14.5°C—
Sep 28, 2018105 m14.5°C—
Sep 29, 2018106 m14.3°C—

Seafloor and sea temperature measured · ✳ dives modelled

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Deepest dive against the seafloor, per sighting

Seafloor · measured Deepest dive · modelled
Aug 27, 2018 — seafloor 64 m (measured), deepest dive — (modelled)Aug 27Aug 29, 2018 — seafloor 73 m (measured), deepest dive — (modelled)Aug 29Sep 8, 2018 — seafloor 44 m (measured), deepest dive — (modelled)Sep 8Sep 9, 2018 — seafloor 52 m (measured), deepest dive — (modelled)Sep 9Sep 10, 2018 — seafloor 254 m (measured), deepest dive — (modelled)Sep 10Sep 24, 2018 — seafloor 59 m (measured), deepest dive — (modelled)Sep 24Sep 25, 2018 — seafloor 38 m (measured), deepest dive — (modelled)Sep 25Sep 26, 2018 — seafloor 254 m (measured), deepest dive — (modelled)Sep 26Sep 28, 2018 — seafloor 101 m (measured), deepest dive — (modelled)Sep 28Sep 28, 2018 — seafloor 105 m (measured), deepest dive — (modelled)Sep 28Sep 29, 2018 — seafloor 106 m (measured), deepest dive — (modelled)Sep 29

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

Dives

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Deepest dive
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Longest dive
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Dives
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Avg dive depth
11
Sightings
33
Days first → last

Dive metrics are modelled within real depth limits — not measured

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Dive profile

modelled
02550startdive sequence (illustrative)

Modelled from the published dive-behaviour distribution. 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 29, 2018

measured
Seafloor depth
106 m
Sea-surface temperature
14.3°C
Distance from shore
9.0 km

Across the residency · 11 sightings

measured
Seafloor depth
38 m – 254 m
Sea-surface temperature
12.8°C – 16.5°C
Distance from shore
2.0 km – 11.0 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.

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