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Monterey Bay

Rainbow – Residency

13th sighting in Monterey Bay
Fluke of Rainbow
Rainbow Confirmed in the catalog @1374
Oct 1 – 7, 2021 · Monterey Bay

Monterey Bay · Oct 2021

144 m
Deepest dive
5:49
Longest dive
54
Dives
Sightings
6
Days between first and last sighting
6

Dive stats modelled within real depth limits — not measured

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SightingSeafloorSea tempDeepest dive (modelled)
Oct 1, 2021129 m—70 m
Oct 3, 2021457 m—119 m
Oct 4, 202162 m—27 m
Oct 5, 2021190 m—144 m
Oct 6, 202162 m—54 m
Oct 7, 2021184 m—124 m

Seafloor and sea temperature measured · ✳ dives modelled

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Deepest dive against the seafloor, per sighting

Seafloor · measured Deepest dive · modelled
Oct 1, 2021 — seafloor 129 m (measured), deepest dive 70 m (modelled)Oct 1Oct 3, 2021 — seafloor 457 m (measured), deepest dive 119 m (modelled)Oct 3Oct 4, 2021 — seafloor 62 m (measured), deepest dive 27 m (modelled)Oct 4Oct 5, 2021 — seafloor 190 m (measured), deepest dive 144 m (modelled)Oct 5Oct 6, 2021 — seafloor 62 m (measured), deepest dive 54 m (modelled)Oct 6Oct 7, 2021 — seafloor 184 m (measured), deepest dive 124 m (modelled)Oct 7

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

Dives

144 m
Deepest dive
5:49
Longest dive
54
Dives
28 m
Avg dive depth
6
Sightings
6
Days first → last

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Dive profile

modelled
075150144 mstartdive sequence (illustrative)

Depth shaped by the seafloor limit here (190 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 · Oct 5, 2021

measured
Seafloor depth
190 m
Sea-surface temperature
—
Distance from shore
7.0 km

Across the residency · 6 sightings

measured
Seafloor depth
62 m – 457 m
Sea-surface temperature
—
Distance from shore
3.0 km – 10.0 km

Sources: GEBCO seafloor grid · PacIOOS coastline distance

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Source records

This activity is assembled from 6 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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