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Monterey Bay

CRC-17324 – Residency

18th sighting in Monterey Bay
Fluke of CRC-17324
CRC-17324 Confirmed in the catalog @11026
Aug 10 – 19, 2019 · Monterey Bay

Monterey Bay · Aug 2019

220 m
Deepest dive
11:18
Longest dive
139
Dives
Sightings
11
Days between first and last sighting
9

Dive stats modelled within real depth limits — not measured

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SightingSeafloorSea tempDeepest dive (modelled)
Aug 10, 201985 m13.3°C69 m
Aug 11, 201985 m13.8°C58 m
Aug 12, 201953 m13.6°C46 m
Aug 13, 201965 m13.8°C28 m
Aug 14, 201963 m14.3°C43 m
Aug 14, 2019121 m14.4°C28 m
Aug 15, 201987 m14.7°C80 m
Aug 16, 201955 m14.8°C44 m
Aug 17, 201981 m15.0°C73 m
Aug 18, 201974 m15.6°C51 m
Aug 19, 2019567 m15.9°C220 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 10, 2019 — seafloor 85 m (measured), deepest dive 69 m (modelled)Aug 10Aug 11, 2019 — seafloor 85 m (measured), deepest dive 58 m (modelled)Aug 11Aug 12, 2019 — seafloor 53 m (measured), deepest dive 46 m (modelled)Aug 12Aug 13, 2019 — seafloor 65 m (measured), deepest dive 28 m (modelled)Aug 13Aug 14, 2019 — seafloor 63 m (measured), deepest dive 43 m (modelled)Aug 14Aug 14, 2019 — seafloor 121 m (measured), deepest dive 28 m (modelled)Aug 14Aug 15, 2019 — seafloor 87 m (measured), deepest dive 80 m (modelled)Aug 15Aug 16, 2019 — seafloor 55 m (measured), deepest dive 44 m (modelled)Aug 16Aug 17, 2019 — seafloor 81 m (measured), deepest dive 73 m (modelled)Aug 17Aug 18, 2019 — seafloor 74 m (measured), deepest dive 51 m (modelled)Aug 18Aug 19, 2019 — seafloor 567 m (measured), deepest dive 220 m (modelled)Aug 19

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

Dives

220 m
Deepest dive
11:18
Longest dive
139
Dives
24 m
Avg dive depth
11
Sightings
9
Days first → last

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Dive profile

modelled
0125250220 mstartdive sequence (illustrative)

Depth shaped by the seafloor limit here (567 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 · Aug 19, 2019

measured
Seafloor depth
567 m
Sea-surface temperature
15.9°C
Distance from shore
16.0 km

Across the residency · 11 sightings

measured
Seafloor depth
53 m – 567 m
Sea-surface temperature
13.3°C – 15.9°C
Distance from shore
2.0 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 11 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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