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Monterey Bay

HW-MN0503673 – Residency

7th sighting in Monterey Bay
Fluke of HW-MN0503673
HW-MN0503673 Confirmed in the catalog @132439
Dec 10, 2024 – Jan 18, 2025 · Monterey Bay

Monterey Bay · Dec 2024 – Jan 2025

78 m
Deepest dive
4:37
Longest dive
87
Dives
Sightings
7
Days between first and last sighting
39
Deepest dive on record
78 m · this residency

Dive stats modelled within real depth limits — not measured

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SightingSeafloorSea tempDeepest dive (modelled)
Dec 10, 2024102 m—41 m
Dec 16, 202444 m—33 m
Jan 3, 202557 m—48 m
Jan 4, 202568 m—36 m
Jan 4, 2025104 m—62 m
Jan 8, 202527 m—24 m
Jan 18, 2025154 m—78 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 10, 2024 — seafloor 102 m (measured), deepest dive 41 m (modelled)Dec 10Dec 16, 2024 — seafloor 44 m (measured), deepest dive 33 m (modelled)Dec 16Jan 3, 2025 — seafloor 57 m (measured), deepest dive 48 m (modelled)Jan 3Jan 4, 2025 — seafloor 68 m (measured), deepest dive 36 m (modelled)Jan 4Jan 4, 2025 — seafloor 104 m (measured), deepest dive 62 m (modelled)Jan 4Jan 8, 2025 — seafloor 27 m (measured), deepest dive 24 m (modelled)Jan 8Jan 18, 2025 — seafloor 154 m (measured), deepest dive 78 m (modelled)Jan 18

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

Dives

78 m
Deepest dive
4:37
Longest dive
87
Dives
22 m
Avg dive depth
7
Sightings
39
Days first → last

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Dive profile

modelled
05010078 mstartdive sequence (illustrative)

Depth shaped by the seafloor limit here (154 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 · Jan 18, 2025

measured
Seafloor depth
154 m
Sea-surface temperature
—
Distance from shore
6.0 km

Across the residency · 7 sightings

measured
Seafloor depth
27 m – 154 m
Sea-surface temperature
—
Distance from shore
1.0 km – 10.0 km

Sources: GEBCO seafloor grid · PacIOOS coastline distance

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Source records

This activity is assembled from 7 catalogued encounters on Happywhale.

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