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Monterey Bay

CRC-16758 – Residency

50th sighting in Monterey Bay
Fluke of CRC-16758
CRC-16758 Confirmed in the catalog @10880
Jul 30 – Nov 13, 2023 · Monterey Bay

Monterey Bay · Jul – Nov 2023

264 m
Deepest dive
8:12
Longest dive
75
Dives
Sightings
5
Days between first and last sighting
106
Deepest dive on record
264 m · this residency

Dive stats modelled within real depth limits — not measured

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SightingSeafloorSea tempDeepest dive (modelled)
Jul 30, 202364 m14.8°C57 m
Oct 4, 2023106 m17.2°C49 m
Oct 6, 2023128 m17.3°C85 m
Oct 9, 2023326 m16.5°C264 m
Nov 13, 2023182 m14.3°C34 m

Seafloor and sea temperature measured · ✳ dives modelled

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Deepest dive against the seafloor, per sighting

Seafloor · measured Deepest dive · modelled
Jul 30, 2023 — seafloor 64 m (measured), deepest dive 57 m (modelled)Jul 30Oct 4, 2023 — seafloor 106 m (measured), deepest dive 49 m (modelled)Oct 4Oct 6, 2023 — seafloor 128 m (measured), deepest dive 85 m (modelled)Oct 6Oct 9, 2023 — seafloor 326 m (measured), deepest dive 264 m (modelled)Oct 9Nov 13, 2023 — seafloor 182 m (measured), deepest dive 34 m (modelled)Nov 13

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

Dives

264 m
Deepest dive
8:12
Longest dive
75
Dives
28 m
Avg dive depth
5
Sightings
106
Days first → last

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Dive profile

modelled
0150300264 mstartdive sequence (illustrative)

Depth shaped by the seafloor limit here (326 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 · Oct 9, 2023

measured
Seafloor depth
326 m
Sea-surface temperature
16.5°C
Distance from shore
5.0 km

Across the residency · 5 sightings

measured
Seafloor depth
64 m – 326 m
Sea-surface temperature
14.3°C – 17.3°C
Distance from shore
4.0 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 5 catalogued encounters on Happywhale.

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