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Monterey Bay

CRC-15638 – Residency

12th sighting in Monterey Bay
Fluke of CRC-15638
CRC-15638 Confirmed in the catalog @1351
Jul 11 – Aug 3, 2019 · Monterey Bay

Monterey Bay · Jul – Aug 2019

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Deepest dive
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Longest dive
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Dives
Sightings
5
Days between first and last sighting
23

Dive stats modelled within real depth limits — not measured

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SightingSeafloorSea tempDeepest dive (modelled)
Jul 11, 2019164 m13.2°C—
Jul 13, 201954 m12.7°C—
Jul 13, 2019543 m13.1°C—
Jul 28, 201967 m14.7°C—
Aug 3, 201980 m14.5°C—

Seafloor and sea temperature measured · ✳ dives modelled

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Deepest dive against the seafloor, per sighting

Seafloor · measured Deepest dive · modelled
Jul 11, 2019 — seafloor 164 m (measured), deepest dive — (modelled)Jul 11Jul 13, 2019 — seafloor 54 m (measured), deepest dive — (modelled)Jul 13Jul 13, 2019 — seafloor 543 m (measured), deepest dive — (modelled)Jul 13Jul 28, 2019 — seafloor 67 m (measured), deepest dive — (modelled)Jul 28Aug 3, 2019 — seafloor 80 m (measured), deepest dive — (modelled)Aug 3

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
5
Sightings
23
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 · Aug 3, 2019

measured
Seafloor depth
80 m
Sea-surface temperature
14.5°C
Distance from shore
5.0 km

Across the residency · 5 sightings

measured
Seafloor depth
54 m – 543 m
Sea-surface temperature
12.7°C – 14.7°C
Distance from shore
2.0 km – 18.0 km

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

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Source records

This activity is assembled from 5 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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