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Monterey Bay

Vishnu – Residency

7th sighting in Monterey Bay
Fluke of Vishnu
Vishnu Confirmed in the catalog @1339
May 15 – Jun 18, 2018 · Monterey Bay

Monterey Bay · May – Jun 2018

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Deepest dive
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Longest dive
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Dives
Sightings
7
Days between first and last sighting
34

Dive stats modelled within real depth limits — not measured

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SightingSeafloorSea tempDeepest dive (modelled)
May 15, 201816 m12.5°C—
May 24, 201866 m12.5°C—
May 30, 201837 m11.7°C—
Jun 3, 201866 m12.9°C—
Jun 15, 201862 m12.5°C—
Jun 16, 2018254 m12.9°C—
Jun 18, 201866 m13.3°C—

Seafloor and sea temperature measured · ✳ dives modelled

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Deepest dive against the seafloor, per sighting

Seafloor · measured Deepest dive · modelled
May 15, 2018 — seafloor 16 m (measured), deepest dive — (modelled)May 15May 24, 2018 — seafloor 66 m (measured), deepest dive — (modelled)May 24May 30, 2018 — seafloor 37 m (measured), deepest dive — (modelled)May 30Jun 3, 2018 — seafloor 66 m (measured), deepest dive — (modelled)Jun 3Jun 15, 2018 — seafloor 62 m (measured), deepest dive — (modelled)Jun 15Jun 16, 2018 — seafloor 254 m (measured), deepest dive — (modelled)Jun 16Jun 18, 2018 — seafloor 66 m (measured), deepest dive — (modelled)Jun 18

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
7
Sightings
34
Days first → last

Dive metrics are modelled within real depth limits — not measured

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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 · Jun 18, 2018

measured
Seafloor depth
66 m
Sea-surface temperature
13.3°C
Distance from shore
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Across the residency · 7 sightings

measured
Seafloor depth
16 m – 254 m
Sea-surface temperature
11.7°C – 13.3°C
Distance from shore
4.0 km – 17.0 km

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

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Source records

This activity is assembled from 7 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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