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Monterey Bay

Swoosh – Residency

4th sighting in Monterey Bay
Fluke of Swoosh
Swoosh Confirmed in the catalog @11
Jul 19 – Oct 9, 2014 · Monterey Bay

Monterey Bay · Jul – Oct 2014

105 m
Deepest dive
3:13
Longest dive
33
Dives
Sightings
4
Days between first and last sighting
82

Dive stats modelled within real depth limits — not measured

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SightingSeafloorSea tempDeepest dive (modelled)
Jul 19, 20142 m16.0°C2 m
Aug 11, 2014254 m17.3°C98 m
Sep 5, 2014254 m17.2°C61 m
Oct 9, 2014333 m16.2°C105 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 19, 2014 — seafloor 2 m (measured), deepest dive 2 m (modelled)Jul 19Aug 11, 2014 — seafloor 254 m (measured), deepest dive 98 m (modelled)Aug 11Sep 5, 2014 — seafloor 254 m (measured), deepest dive 61 m (modelled)Sep 5Oct 9, 2014 — seafloor 333 m (measured), deepest dive 105 m (modelled)Oct 9

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

Dives

105 m
Deepest dive
3:13
Longest dive
33
Dives
23 m
Avg dive depth
4
Sightings
82
Days first → last

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Dive profile

modelled
075150105 mstartdive sequence (illustrative)

Depth shaped by the seafloor limit here (333 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, 2014

measured
Seafloor depth
333 m
Sea-surface temperature
16.2°C
Distance from shore
9.0 km

Across the residency · 4 sightings

measured
Seafloor depth
2 m – 333 m
Sea-surface temperature
16.0°C – 17.3°C
Distance from shore
4.0 km – 9.0 km

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

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Source records

This activity is assembled from 4 catalogued encounters on Happywhale.

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