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Monterey Bay

Bear – Residency

28th sighting in Monterey Bay
Fluke of Bear
Bear Confirmed in the catalog @11057
Sep 1 – Nov 12, 2021 · Monterey Bay

Autumn in the Bay

Two months of good feeding here, the krill thick enough to keep me coming back.

311 m
Deepest dive
11:44
Longest dive
174
Dives
Sightings
14
Days between first and last sighting
72
Deepest dive on record
311 m · this residency

Dive stats modelled within real depth limits — not measured

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SightingSeafloorSea tempDeepest dive (modelled)
Sep 1, 202147 m17.6°C29 m
Sep 2, 2021314 m16.9°C174 m
Sep 7, 2021567 m17.9°C311 m
Sep 8, 2021567 m18.0°C164 m
Sep 10, 2021214 m17.9°C64 m
Sep 18, 2021363 m16.2°C112 m
Sep 26, 202135 m16.4°C24 m
Oct 1, 202159 m15.6°C33 m
Oct 2, 202120 m15.7°C17 m
Oct 3, 202196 m15.7°C72 m
Oct 5, 202126 m15.6°C18 m
Oct 6, 202141 m15.5°C34 m
Oct 10, 2021156 m14.6°C87 m
Nov 12, 202191 m16.3°C59 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 1, 2021 — seafloor 47 m (measured), deepest dive 29 m (modelled)Sep 1Sep 2, 2021 — seafloor 314 m (measured), deepest dive 174 m (modelled)Sep 7, 2021 — seafloor 567 m (measured), deepest dive 311 m (modelled)Sep 8, 2021 — seafloor 567 m (measured), deepest dive 164 m (modelled)Sep 8Sep 10, 2021 — seafloor 214 m (measured), deepest dive 64 m (modelled)Sep 18, 2021 — seafloor 363 m (measured), deepest dive 112 m (modelled)Sep 26, 2021 — seafloor 35 m (measured), deepest dive 24 m (modelled)Sep 26Oct 1, 2021 — seafloor 59 m (measured), deepest dive 33 m (modelled)Oct 2, 2021 — seafloor 20 m (measured), deepest dive 17 m (modelled)Oct 3, 2021 — seafloor 96 m (measured), deepest dive 72 m (modelled)Oct 3Oct 5, 2021 — seafloor 26 m (measured), deepest dive 18 m (modelled)Oct 6, 2021 — seafloor 41 m (measured), deepest dive 34 m (modelled)Oct 10, 2021 — seafloor 156 m (measured), deepest dive 87 m (modelled)Oct 10Nov 12, 2021 — seafloor 91 m (measured), deepest dive 59 m (modelled)

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

Dives

311 m
Deepest dive
11:44
Longest dive
174
Dives
25 m
Avg dive depth
14
Sightings
72
Days first → last

Dive metrics are modelled within real depth limits — not measured

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Dive profile

modelled
0175350311 mstartdive sequence (illustrative)

Depth shaped by the seafloor limit here (567 m) and the published dive-behaviour distribution. Modelled, not measured.

Deep Effort Score

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Place

Where this happened · Sep 7, 2021

measured
Seafloor depth
567 m
Sea-surface temperature
17.9°C
Distance from shore
16.0 km

Across the residency · 14 sightings

measured
Seafloor depth
20 m – 567 m
Sea-surface temperature
14.6°C – 18.0°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 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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