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Monterey Bay

Magnanimous – Residency

14th sighting in Monterey Bay
Fluke of Magnanimous
Magnanimous Confirmed in the catalog @109395
Jul 31 – Sep 25, 2024 · Monterey Bay

Monterey Bay · Jul – Sep 2024

80 m
Deepest dive
2:41
Longest dive
124
Dives
Sightings
12
Days between first and last sighting
56

Dive stats modelled within real depth limits — not measured

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SightingSeafloorSea tempDeepest dive (modelled)
Jul 31, 202473 m—62 m
Aug 5, 202484 m—45 m
Aug 6, 202480 m—59 m
Aug 7, 202492 m—55 m
Aug 8, 202468 m—41 m
Aug 11, 2024102 m—21 m
Aug 31, 202497 m—23 m
Sep 15, 202472 m—50 m
Sep 15, 202497 m—80 m
Sep 16, 2024567 m—49 m
Sep 16, 2024105 m—64 m
Sep 25, 2024648 m—32 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 31, 2024 — seafloor 73 m (measured), deepest dive 62 m (modelled)Jul 31Aug 5, 2024 — seafloor 84 m (measured), deepest dive 45 m (modelled)Aug 5Aug 6, 2024 — seafloor 80 m (measured), deepest dive 59 m (modelled)Aug 6Aug 7, 2024 — seafloor 92 m (measured), deepest dive 55 m (modelled)Aug 7Aug 8, 2024 — seafloor 68 m (measured), deepest dive 41 m (modelled)Aug 8Aug 11, 2024 — seafloor 102 m (measured), deepest dive 21 m (modelled)Aug 11Aug 31, 2024 — seafloor 97 m (measured), deepest dive 23 m (modelled)Aug 31Sep 15, 2024 — seafloor 72 m (measured), deepest dive 50 m (modelled)Sep 15Sep 15, 2024 — seafloor 97 m (measured), deepest dive 80 m (modelled)Sep 15Sep 16, 2024 — seafloor 567 m (measured), deepest dive 49 m (modelled)Sep 16Sep 16, 2024 — seafloor 105 m (measured), deepest dive 64 m (modelled)Sep 16Sep 25, 2024 — seafloor 648 m (measured), deepest dive 32 m (modelled)Sep 25

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

Dives

80 m
Deepest dive
2:41
Longest dive
124
Dives
22 m
Avg dive depth
12
Sightings
56
Days first → last

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Dive profile

modelled
05010080 mstartdive sequence (illustrative)

Depth shaped by the seafloor limit here (97 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 15, 2024

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

Across the residency · 12 sightings

measured
Seafloor depth
68 m – 648 m
Sea-surface temperature
—
Distance from shore
3.0 km – 16.0 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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