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Monterey Bay

Alcyone – Residency

5th sighting in Monterey Bay
Fluke of Alcyone
Alcyone Confirmed in the catalog @109413
Aug 8 – Sep 10, 2024 · Monterey Bay

Monterey Bay · Aug – Sep 2024

192 m
Deepest dive
7:53
Longest dive
96
Dives
Sightings
5
Days between first and last sighting
33
Deepest dive on record
192 m · this residency

Dive stats modelled within real depth limits — not measured

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SightingSeafloorSea tempDeepest dive (modelled)
Aug 8, 202463 m—43 m
Aug 16, 2024102 m—85 m
Aug 18, 2024202 m—51 m
Sep 5, 202481 m—68 m
Sep 10, 2024221 m—192 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 8, 2024 — seafloor 63 m (measured), deepest dive 43 m (modelled)Aug 8Aug 16, 2024 — seafloor 102 m (measured), deepest dive 85 m (modelled)Aug 16Aug 18, 2024 — seafloor 202 m (measured), deepest dive 51 m (modelled)Aug 18Sep 5, 2024 — seafloor 81 m (measured), deepest dive 68 m (modelled)Sep 5Sep 10, 2024 — seafloor 221 m (measured), deepest dive 192 m (modelled)Sep 10

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

Dives

192 m
Deepest dive
7:53
Longest dive
96
Dives
27 m
Avg dive depth
5
Sightings
33
Days first → last

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Dive profile

modelled
0100200192 mstartdive sequence (illustrative)

Depth shaped by the seafloor limit here (221 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 10, 2024

measured
Seafloor depth
221 m
Sea-surface temperature
—
Distance from shore
12.0 km

Across the residency · 5 sightings

measured
Seafloor depth
63 m – 221 m
Sea-surface temperature
—
Distance from shore
4.0 km – 14.0 km

Sources: GEBCO seafloor grid · PacIOOS coastline distance

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Source records

This activity is assembled from 5 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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