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Monterey Bay

Swoosh – Residency

78th sighting in Monterey Bay
Fluke of Swoosh
Swoosh Confirmed in the catalog @11
Jul 17 – Oct 17, 2021 · Monterey Bay

Summer in the Bay

Three months of perfect feeding, the same sweet waters calling me back again and again.

125 m
Deepest dive
3:48
Longest dive
150
Dives
Sightings
14
Days between first and last sighting
92

Dive stats modelled within real depth limits — not measured

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SightingSeafloorSea tempDeepest dive (modelled)
Jul 17, 2021106 m13.9°C25 m
Jul 20, 202172 m15.0°C58 m
Jul 21, 202168 m15.0°C59 m
Jul 21, 202182 m15.0°C53 m
Jul 22, 2021419 m14.7°C108 m
Jul 23, 2021102 m14.4°C60 m
Jul 23, 2021567 m14.7°C36 m
Jul 24, 2021339 m14.8°C69 m
Sep 14, 202195 m16.4°C42 m
Oct 16, 2021300 m13.5°C49 m
Oct 16, 202188 m13.6°C48 m
Oct 16, 2021274 m13.4°C125 m
Oct 17, 202196 m13.4°C72 m
Oct 17, 2021382 m13.5°C37 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 17, 2021 — seafloor 106 m (measured), deepest dive 25 m (modelled)Jul 17Jul 20, 2021 — seafloor 72 m (measured), deepest dive 58 m (modelled)Jul 21, 2021 — seafloor 68 m (measured), deepest dive 59 m (modelled)Jul 21, 2021 — seafloor 82 m (measured), deepest dive 53 m (modelled)Jul 21Jul 22, 2021 — seafloor 419 m (measured), deepest dive 108 m (modelled)Jul 23, 2021 — seafloor 102 m (measured), deepest dive 60 m (modelled)Jul 23, 2021 — seafloor 567 m (measured), deepest dive 36 m (modelled)Jul 23Jul 24, 2021 — seafloor 339 m (measured), deepest dive 69 m (modelled)Sep 14, 2021 — seafloor 95 m (measured), deepest dive 42 m (modelled)Oct 16, 2021 — seafloor 300 m (measured), deepest dive 49 m (modelled)Oct 16Oct 16, 2021 — seafloor 88 m (measured), deepest dive 48 m (modelled)Oct 16, 2021 — seafloor 274 m (measured), deepest dive 125 m (modelled)Oct 17, 2021 — seafloor 96 m (measured), deepest dive 72 m (modelled)Oct 17Oct 17, 2021 — seafloor 382 m (measured), deepest dive 37 m (modelled)

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

Dives

125 m
Deepest dive
3:48
Longest dive
150
Dives
25 m
Avg dive depth
14
Sightings
92
Days first → last

Dive metrics are modelled within real depth limits — not measured

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Dive profile

modelled
075150125 mstartdive sequence (illustrative)

Depth shaped by the seafloor limit here (274 m) and the published dive-behaviour distribution. Modelled, not measured.

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Place

Where this happened · Oct 16, 2021

measured
Seafloor depth
274 m
Sea-surface temperature
13.4°C
Distance from shore
8.0 km

Across the residency · 14 sightings

measured
Seafloor depth
68 m – 567 m
Sea-surface temperature
13.4°C – 16.4°C
Distance from shore
4.0 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 14 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.

The photographs and fluke identifications behind every sighting are the work of the contributing observers — the citizen scientists, naturalists and operators who logged them, each named in the underlying GBIF occurrence record. Every activity links out to its source encounters on Happywhale. Basemaps © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL).

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