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Monterey Bay

Richter – Residency

16th sighting in Monterey Bay
Fluke of Richter
Richter Confirmed in the catalog @11239
Aug 9 – Oct 10, 2017 · Monterey Bay

Monterey Bay · Aug – Oct 2017

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Deepest dive
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Longest dive
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Dives
Sightings
16
Days between first and last sighting
62

Dive stats modelled within real depth limits — not measured

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SightingSeafloorSea tempDeepest dive (modelled)
Aug 9, 201796 m——
Aug 12, 201771 m——
Aug 16, 201753 m——
Aug 17, 2017126 m——
Aug 18, 2017171 m——
Aug 22, 2017119 m——
Aug 26, 2017196 m——
Aug 29, 2017121 m——
Aug 30, 2017208 m——
Aug 31, 201772 m——
Sep 1, 201767 m——
Sep 5, 201777 m——
Sep 25, 2017234 m——
Sep 28, 2017112 m——
Oct 3, 2017326 m——
Oct 10, 2017460 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 9, 2017 — seafloor 96 m (measured), deepest dive — (modelled)Aug 9Aug 12, 2017 — seafloor 71 m (measured), deepest dive — (modelled)Aug 16, 2017 — seafloor 53 m (measured), deepest dive — (modelled)Aug 17, 2017 — seafloor 126 m (measured), deepest dive — (modelled)Aug 17Aug 18, 2017 — seafloor 171 m (measured), deepest dive — (modelled)Aug 22, 2017 — seafloor 119 m (measured), deepest dive — (modelled)Aug 26, 2017 — seafloor 196 m (measured), deepest dive — (modelled)Aug 26Aug 29, 2017 — seafloor 121 m (measured), deepest dive — (modelled)Aug 30, 2017 — seafloor 208 m (measured), deepest dive — (modelled)Aug 31, 2017 — seafloor 72 m (measured), deepest dive — (modelled)Aug 31Sep 1, 2017 — seafloor 67 m (measured), deepest dive — (modelled)Sep 5, 2017 — seafloor 77 m (measured), deepest dive — (modelled)Sep 25, 2017 — seafloor 234 m (measured), deepest dive — (modelled)Sep 25Sep 28, 2017 — seafloor 112 m (measured), deepest dive — (modelled)Oct 3, 2017 — seafloor 326 m (measured), deepest dive — (modelled)Oct 10, 2017 — seafloor 460 m (measured), deepest dive — (modelled)Oct 10

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

Dives

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Deepest dive
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Longest dive
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Dives
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Avg dive depth
16
Sightings
62
Days first → last

Dive metrics are modelled within real depth limits — not measured

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Dive profile

modelled
02550startdive sequence (illustrative)

Modelled from the published dive-behaviour distribution. 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 10, 2017

measured
Seafloor depth
460 m
Sea-surface temperature
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Distance from shore
9.0 km

Across the residency · 16 sightings

measured
Seafloor depth
53 m – 460 m
Sea-surface temperature
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Distance from shore
2.0 km – 13.0 km

Sources: GEBCO seafloor grid · PacIOOS coastline distance

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Source records

This activity is assembled from 16 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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