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Monterey Bay

CRC-21859 – Residency

1st sighting in Monterey Bay
Fluke of CRC-21859
CRC-21859 Confirmed in the catalog @109411
Sep 4 – Oct 25, 2023 · Monterey Bay

Monterey Bay · Sep – Oct 2023

144 m
Deepest dive
6:44
Longest dive
47
Dives
Sightings
4
Days between first and last sighting
51

Dive stats modelled within real depth limits — not measured

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SightingSeafloorSea tempDeepest dive (modelled)
Sep 4, 2023285 m—121 m
Oct 22, 2023538 m—144 m
Oct 22, 2023760 m—69 m
Oct 25, 2023875 m—102 m

Seafloor and sea temperature measured · ✳ dives modelled

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Deepest dive against the seafloor, per sighting

Seafloor · measured Deepest dive · modelled
Sep 4, 2023 — seafloor 285 m (measured), deepest dive 121 m (modelled)Sep 4Oct 22, 2023 — seafloor 538 m (measured), deepest dive 144 m (modelled)Oct 22Oct 22, 2023 — seafloor 760 m (measured), deepest dive 69 m (modelled)Oct 22Oct 25, 2023 — seafloor 875 m (measured), deepest dive 102 m (modelled)Oct 25

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

Dives

144 m
Deepest dive
6:44
Longest dive
47
Dives
36 m
Avg dive depth
4
Sightings
51
Days first → last

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Dive profile

modelled
075150144 mstartdive sequence (illustrative)

Depth shaped by the seafloor limit here (538 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 22, 2023

measured
Seafloor depth
538 m
Sea-surface temperature
—
Distance from shore
22.0 km

Across the residency · 4 sightings

measured
Seafloor depth
285 m – 875 m
Sea-surface temperature
—
Distance from shore
12.0 km – 28.0 km

Sources: GEBCO seafloor grid · PacIOOS coastline distance

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Source records

This activity is assembled from 4 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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