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Monterey Bay

Swoosh – Residency

95th sighting in Monterey Bay
Fluke of Swoosh
Swoosh Confirmed in the catalog @11
Jun 8 – Nov 10, 2022 · Monterey Bay

Summer in the Bay

Found my rhythm in these familiar waters, surfacing again and again where the feeding's good.

219 m
Deepest dive
7:09
Longest dive
206
Dives
Sightings
19
Days between first and last sighting
155

Dive stats modelled within real depth limits — not measured

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SightingSeafloorSea tempDeepest dive (modelled)
Jun 8, 2022294 m12.9°C35 m
Jun 8, 2022129 m12.9°C97 m
Jun 18, 2022375 m11.6°C51 m
Jul 20, 202280 m15.6°C52 m
Jul 21, 202293 m15.9°C58 m
Jul 25, 2022420 m15.0°C82 m
Jul 26, 2022108 m14.2°C92 m
Sep 7, 2022181 m21.2°C33 m
Sep 7, 2022586 m20.1°C219 m
Oct 4, 202288 m16.2°C21 m
Oct 24, 202222 m14.0°C19 m
Oct 24, 2022567 m13.6°C121 m
Oct 25, 2022567 m13.4°C64 m
Oct 27, 2022159 m13.5°C85 m
Oct 28, 2022567 m13.2°C58 m
Oct 30, 2022567 m13.2°C164 m
Oct 30, 2022101 m13.8°C36 m
Nov 5, 2022159 m13.0°C36 m

Seafloor and sea temperature measured · ✳ dives modelled ·

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Deepest dive against the seafloor, per sighting

Seafloor · measured Deepest dive · modelled
Jun 8, 2022 — seafloor 294 m (measured), deepest dive 35 m (modelled)Jun 8Jun 8, 2022 — seafloor 129 m (measured), deepest dive 97 m (modelled)Jun 18, 2022 — seafloor 375 m (measured), deepest dive 51 m (modelled)Jul 20, 2022 — seafloor 80 m (measured), deepest dive 52 m (modelled)Jul 21, 2022 — seafloor 93 m (measured), deepest dive 58 m (modelled)Jul 21Jul 25, 2022 — seafloor 420 m (measured), deepest dive 82 m (modelled)Jul 26, 2022 — seafloor 108 m (measured), deepest dive 92 m (modelled)Sep 7, 2022 — seafloor 181 m (measured), deepest dive 33 m (modelled)Sep 7, 2022 — seafloor 586 m (measured), deepest dive 219 m (modelled)Sep 7Oct 4, 2022 — seafloor 88 m (measured), deepest dive 21 m (modelled)Oct 24, 2022 — seafloor 22 m (measured), deepest dive 19 m (modelled)Oct 24, 2022 — seafloor 567 m (measured), deepest dive 121 m (modelled)Oct 25, 2022 — seafloor 567 m (measured), deepest dive 64 m (modelled)Oct 25Oct 27, 2022 — seafloor 159 m (measured), deepest dive 85 m (modelled)Oct 28, 2022 — seafloor 567 m (measured), deepest dive 58 m (modelled)Oct 30, 2022 — seafloor 567 m (measured), deepest dive 164 m (modelled)Oct 30, 2022 — seafloor 101 m (measured), deepest dive 36 m (modelled)Oct 30Nov 5, 2022 — seafloor 159 m (measured), deepest dive 36 m (modelled)Nov 10, 2022 — seafloor 689 m (measured), deepest dive 71 m (modelled)

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

Dives

219 m
Deepest dive
7:09
Longest dive
206
Dives
30 m
Avg dive depth
19
Sightings
155
Days first → last

Dive metrics are modelled within real depth limits — not measured

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Dive profile

modelled
0125250219 mstartdive sequence (illustrative)

Depth shaped by the seafloor limit here (586 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 7, 2022

measured
Seafloor depth
586 m
Sea-surface temperature
20.1°C
Distance from shore
15.0 km

Across the residency · 19 sightings

measured
Seafloor depth
22 m – 689 m
Sea-surface temperature
11.6°C – 21.2°C
Distance from shore
3.0 km – 16.0 km

Sources: GEBCO seafloor grid · NASA JPL MUR sea temperature · PacIOOS coastline distance

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Source records

This activity is assembled from 19 catalogued encounters on Happywhale.

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