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Monterey Bay

Inverse – Residency

145th sighting in Monterey Bay
Fluke of Inverse
Inverse Confirmed in the catalog @125
Apr 17 – Nov 5, 2022 · Monterey Bay

Seven Months in Paradise

The bay held me through spring into autumn, krill thick as clouds.

128 m
Deepest dive
6:01
Longest dive
227
Dives
Sightings
23
Days between first and last sighting
202

Dive stats modelled within real depth limits — not measured

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SightingSeafloorSea tempDeepest dive (modelled)
Apr 17, 202273 m10.4°C42 m
Apr 23, 2022254 m11.6°C120 m
May 16, 202268 m11.4°C46 m
May 17, 202274 m11.0°C51 m
Jun 2, 2022156 m11.9°C29 m
Jun 7, 202294 m13.8°C80 m
Jun 12, 2022378 m13.0°C101 m
Aug 6, 202256 m16.5°C42 m
Aug 26, 202293 m14.4°C82 m
Aug 27, 202292 m14.4°C51 m
Aug 29, 2022119 m15.7°C60 m
Sep 2, 20221,367 m16.4°C128 m
Sep 9, 2022248 m16.6°C93 m
Sep 13, 2022567 m15.3°C86 m
Sep 17, 202278 m15.5°C27 m
Sep 30, 202287 m16.0°C60 m
Oct 27, 2022142 m14.2°C68 m
Oct 28, 2022131 m14.0°C62 m

Seafloor and sea temperature measured · ✳ dives modelled ·

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Deepest dive against the seafloor, per sighting

Seafloor · measured Deepest dive · modelled
Apr 17, 2022 — seafloor 73 m (measured), deepest dive 42 m (modelled)Apr 17Apr 23, 2022 — seafloor 254 m (measured), deepest dive 120 m (modelled)May 16, 2022 — seafloor 68 m (measured), deepest dive 46 m (modelled)May 17, 2022 — seafloor 74 m (measured), deepest dive 51 m (modelled)Jun 2, 2022 — seafloor 156 m (measured), deepest dive 29 m (modelled)Jun 2Jun 7, 2022 — seafloor 94 m (measured), deepest dive 80 m (modelled)Jun 12, 2022 — seafloor 378 m (measured), deepest dive 101 m (modelled)Aug 6, 2022 — seafloor 56 m (measured), deepest dive 42 m (modelled)Aug 26, 2022 — seafloor 93 m (measured), deepest dive 82 m (modelled)Aug 26Aug 27, 2022 — seafloor 92 m (measured), deepest dive 51 m (modelled)Aug 29, 2022 — seafloor 119 m (measured), deepest dive 60 m (modelled)Sep 2, 2022 — seafloor 1,367 m (measured), deepest dive 128 m (modelled)Sep 9, 2022 — seafloor 248 m (measured), deepest dive 93 m (modelled)Sep 9Sep 13, 2022 — seafloor 567 m (measured), deepest dive 86 m (modelled)Sep 17, 2022 — seafloor 78 m (measured), deepest dive 27 m (modelled)Sep 30, 2022 — seafloor 87 m (measured), deepest dive 60 m (modelled)Oct 27, 2022 — seafloor 142 m (measured), deepest dive 68 m (modelled)Oct 27Oct 28, 2022 — seafloor 131 m (measured), deepest dive 62 m (modelled)Oct 28, 2022 — seafloor 76 m (measured), deepest dive 61 m (modelled)Oct 30, 2022 — seafloor 398 m (measured), deepest dive 67 m (modelled)Nov 5, 2022 — seafloor 567 m (measured), deepest dive 54 m (modelled)Nov 5Nov 5, 2022 — seafloor 567 m (measured), deepest dive 60 m (modelled)Nov 5, 2022 — seafloor 108 m (measured), deepest dive 84 m (modelled)

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

Dives

128 m
Deepest dive
6:01
Longest dive
227
Dives
26 m
Avg dive depth
23
Sightings
202
Days first → last

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Dive profile

modelled
075150128 mstartdive sequence (illustrative)

Depth shaped by the seafloor limit here (1,367 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 · Sep 2, 2022

measured
Seafloor depth
1,367 m
Sea-surface temperature
16.4°C
Distance from shore
20.0 km

Across the residency · 23 sightings

measured
Seafloor depth
56 m – 1,367 m
Sea-surface temperature
10.4°C – 16.6°C
Distance from shore
2.0 km – 20.0 km

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

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Source records

This activity is assembled from 23 catalogued encounters on Happywhale.

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