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Monterey Bay

CRC-12114 – Residency

14th sighting in Monterey Bay
Fluke of CRC-12114
CRC-12114 Confirmed in the catalog @1310
Sep 23 – Oct 21, 2023 · Monterey Bay

Monterey Bay September

The same familiar waters keep calling me back through autumn.

88 m
Deepest dive
4:16
Longest dive
53
Dives
Sightings
4
Days between first and last sighting
28

Dive stats modelled within real depth limits — not measured

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SightingSeafloorSea tempDeepest dive (modelled)
Sep 23, 2023117 m16.8°C49 m
Oct 9, 2023137 m16.5°C63 m
Oct 10, 2023101 m15.8°C88 m
Oct 21, 202380 m16.0°C32 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 23, 2023 — seafloor 117 m (measured), deepest dive 49 m (modelled)Sep 23Oct 9, 2023 — seafloor 137 m (measured), deepest dive 63 m (modelled)Oct 9Oct 10, 2023 — seafloor 101 m (measured), deepest dive 88 m (modelled)Oct 10Oct 21, 2023 — seafloor 80 m (measured), deepest dive 32 m (modelled)Oct 21

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

Dives

88 m
Deepest dive
4:16
Longest dive
53
Dives
24 m
Avg dive depth
4
Sightings
28
Days first → last

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Dive profile

modelled
05010088 mstartdive sequence (illustrative)

Depth shaped by the seafloor limit here (101 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 · Oct 10, 2023

measured
Seafloor depth
101 m
Sea-surface temperature
15.8°C
Distance from shore
8.0 km

Across the residency · 4 sightings

measured
Seafloor depth
80 m – 137 m
Sea-surface temperature
15.8°C – 16.8°C
Distance from shore
7.0 km – 12.0 km

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

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Source records

This activity is assembled from 4 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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