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Monterey Bay

Ruth – Residency

14th sighting in Monterey Bay
Fluke of Ruth
Ruth Confirmed in the catalog @1324
Jun 10 – Oct 19, 2017 · Monterey Bay

Monterey Bay · Jun – Oct 2017

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Deepest dive
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Longest dive
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Dives
Sightings
11
Days between first and last sighting
131

Dive stats modelled within real depth limits — not measured

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SightingSeafloorSea tempDeepest dive (modelled)
Jun 10, 2017246 m12.4°C—
Aug 25, 201720 m16.9°C—
Sep 1, 2017150 m16.3°C—
Sep 15, 2017173 m17.4°C—
Sep 21, 2017328 m16.0°C—
Sep 25, 2017366 m15.9°C—
Sep 27, 2017321 m15.7°C—
Oct 13, 2017503 m13.6°C—
Oct 15, 2017606 m13.5°C—
Oct 16, 2017151 m13.5°C—
Oct 19, 2017567 m13.5°C—

Seafloor and sea temperature measured · ✳ dives modelled

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Deepest dive against the seafloor, per sighting

Seafloor · measured Deepest dive · modelled
Jun 10, 2017 — seafloor 246 m (measured), deepest dive — (modelled)Jun 10Aug 25, 2017 — seafloor 20 m (measured), deepest dive — (modelled)Aug 25Sep 1, 2017 — seafloor 150 m (measured), deepest dive — (modelled)Sep 1Sep 15, 2017 — seafloor 173 m (measured), deepest dive — (modelled)Sep 15Sep 21, 2017 — seafloor 328 m (measured), deepest dive — (modelled)Sep 21Sep 25, 2017 — seafloor 366 m (measured), deepest dive — (modelled)Sep 25Sep 27, 2017 — seafloor 321 m (measured), deepest dive — (modelled)Sep 27Oct 13, 2017 — seafloor 503 m (measured), deepest dive — (modelled)Oct 13Oct 15, 2017 — seafloor 606 m (measured), deepest dive — (modelled)Oct 15Oct 16, 2017 — seafloor 151 m (measured), deepest dive — (modelled)Oct 16Oct 19, 2017 — seafloor 567 m (measured), deepest dive — (modelled)Oct 19

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
11
Sightings
131
Days first → last

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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 19, 2017

measured
Seafloor depth
567 m
Sea-surface temperature
13.5°C
Distance from shore
16.0 km

Across the residency · 11 sightings

measured
Seafloor depth
20 m – 606 m
Sea-surface temperature
12.4°C – 17.4°C
Distance from shore
1.0 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 11 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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