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Monterey Bay

Swoosh – Residency

64th sighting in Monterey Bay
Fluke of Swoosh
Swoosh Confirmed in the catalog @11
Sep 18 – Oct 8, 2020 · Monterey Bay

Monterey Bay · Sep – Oct 2020

171 m
Deepest dive
6:32
Longest dive
76
Dives
Sightings
7
Days between first and last sighting
20

Dive stats modelled within real depth limits — not measured

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SightingSeafloorSea tempDeepest dive (modelled)
Sep 18, 202021 m15.3°C19 m
Sep 19, 2020567 m14.5°C106 m
Sep 20, 202075 m15.1°C67 m
Sep 24, 2020266 m15.7°C171 m
Sep 26, 2020332 m15.9°C84 m
Oct 7, 2020567 m15.7°C113 m
Oct 8, 202091 m15.2°C54 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 18, 2020 — seafloor 21 m (measured), deepest dive 19 m (modelled)Sep 18Sep 19, 2020 — seafloor 567 m (measured), deepest dive 106 m (modelled)Sep 19Sep 20, 2020 — seafloor 75 m (measured), deepest dive 67 m (modelled)Sep 20Sep 24, 2020 — seafloor 266 m (measured), deepest dive 171 m (modelled)Sep 24Sep 26, 2020 — seafloor 332 m (measured), deepest dive 84 m (modelled)Sep 26Oct 7, 2020 — seafloor 567 m (measured), deepest dive 113 m (modelled)Oct 7Oct 8, 2020 — seafloor 91 m (measured), deepest dive 54 m (modelled)Oct 8

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

Dives

171 m
Deepest dive
6:32
Longest dive
76
Dives
31 m
Avg dive depth
7
Sightings
20
Days first → last

Dive metrics are modelled within real depth limits — not measured

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Dive profile

modelled
0100200171 mstartdive sequence (illustrative)

Depth shaped by the seafloor limit here (266 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 24, 2020

measured
Seafloor depth
266 m
Sea-surface temperature
15.7°C
Distance from shore
4.0 km

Across the residency · 7 sightings

measured
Seafloor depth
21 m – 567 m
Sea-surface temperature
14.5°C – 15.9°C
Distance from shore
1.0 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 7 catalogued encounters on Happywhale.

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