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Monterey Bay

CRC-15486 – Residency

38th sighting in Monterey Bay
Fluke of CRC-15486
CRC-15486 Confirmed in the catalog @1350
Jul 13 – Aug 19, 2023 · Monterey Bay

Monterey Bay · Jul – Aug 2023

60 m
Deepest dive
2:43
Longest dive
35
Dives
Sightings
4
Days between first and last sighting
37

Dive stats modelled within real depth limits — not measured

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SightingSeafloorSea tempDeepest dive (modelled)
Jul 13, 202379 m13.7°C60 m
Aug 17, 202382 m17.3°C58 m
Aug 17, 202394 m17.2°C50 m
Aug 19, 2023385 m17.4°C42 m

Seafloor and sea temperature measured · ✳ dives modelled

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Deepest dive against the seafloor, per sighting

Seafloor · measured Deepest dive · modelled
Jul 13, 2023 — seafloor 79 m (measured), deepest dive 60 m (modelled)Jul 13Aug 17, 2023 — seafloor 82 m (measured), deepest dive 58 m (modelled)Aug 17Aug 17, 2023 — seafloor 94 m (measured), deepest dive 50 m (modelled)Aug 17Aug 19, 2023 — seafloor 385 m (measured), deepest dive 42 m (modelled)Aug 19

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

Dives

60 m
Deepest dive
2:43
Longest dive
35
Dives
26 m
Avg dive depth
4
Sightings
37
Days first → last

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Dive profile

modelled
05010060 mstartdive sequence (illustrative)

Depth shaped by the seafloor limit here (79 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 · Jul 13, 2023

measured
Seafloor depth
79 m
Sea-surface temperature
13.7°C
Distance from shore
6.0 km

Across the residency · 4 sightings

measured
Seafloor depth
79 m – 385 m
Sea-surface temperature
13.7°C – 17.4°C
Distance from shore
5.0 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 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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