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Banderas Bay

Fantasmin – Residency

25th sighting in Banderas Bay
Fluke of Fantasmin
Fantasmin Confirmed in the catalog @12117
Dec 12, 2022 – Feb 8, 2023 · Banderas Bay

Banderas Bay Winter

Two months of warm waters, old familiar currents calling me home again.

58 m
Deepest dive
2:09
Longest dive
24
Dives
Sightings
3
Days between first and last sighting
58

Dive stats modelled within real depth limits — not measured

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SightingSeafloorSea tempDeepest dive (modelled)
Dec 12, 202265 m26.2°C58 m
Dec 18, 202265 m25.2°C53 m
Feb 8, 202332 m23.9°C29 m

Seafloor and sea temperature measured · ✳ dives modelled

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Deepest dive against the seafloor, per sighting

Seafloor · measured Deepest dive · modelled
Dec 12, 2022 — seafloor 65 m (measured), deepest dive 58 m (modelled)Dec 12Dec 18, 2022 — seafloor 65 m (measured), deepest dive 53 m (modelled)Dec 18Feb 8, 2023 — seafloor 32 m (measured), deepest dive 29 m (modelled)Feb 8

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

Dives

58 m
Deepest dive
2:09
Longest dive
24
Dives
23 m
Avg dive depth
3
Sightings
58
Days first → last

Dive metrics are modelled within real depth limits — not measured

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Dive profile

modelled
05010058 mstartdive sequence (illustrative)

Depth shaped by the seafloor limit here (65 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 · Dec 12, 2022

measured
Seafloor depth
65 m
Sea-surface temperature
26.2°C
Distance from shore
5.0 km

Across the residency · 3 sightings

measured
Seafloor depth
32 m – 65 m
Sea-surface temperature
23.9°C – 26.2°C
Distance from shore
5.0 km – 6.0 km

Sources: GEBCO seafloor grid · NASA JPL MUR sea temperature · PacIOOS coastline distance

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Source records

This activity is assembled from 3 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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