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Monterey Bay

Flopsy – Residency

64th sighting in Monterey Bay
Fluke of Flopsy
Flopsy Confirmed in the catalog @1392
Oct 15 – 23, 2021 · Monterey Bay

October in the Bay

Same old haunts, same rich waters calling me back again.

221 m
Deepest dive
9:13
Longest dive
111
Dives
Sightings
13
Days between first and last sighting
8

Dive stats modelled within real depth limits — not measured

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SightingSeafloorSea tempDeepest dive (modelled)
Oct 15, 2021467 m14.1°C58 m
Oct 16, 2021441 m13.4°C44 m
Oct 16, 2021382 m13.4°C47 m
Oct 16, 20211,055 m14.0°C221 m
Oct 16, 2021255 m13.4°C39 m
Oct 16, 2021297 m13.4°C56 m
Oct 16, 202155 m13.8°C46 m
Oct 17, 202193 m13.4°C35 m
Oct 18, 202160 m13.2°C26 m
Oct 19, 202188 m13.0°C75 m
Oct 23, 2021102 m13.5°C40 m
Oct 23, 2021394 m13.7°C120 m
Oct 23, 2021298 m13.6°C68 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 15, 2021 — seafloor 467 m (measured), deepest dive 58 m (modelled)Oct 15Oct 16, 2021 — seafloor 441 m (measured), deepest dive 44 m (modelled)Oct 16, 2021 — seafloor 382 m (measured), deepest dive 47 m (modelled)Oct 16, 2021 — seafloor 1,055 m (measured), deepest dive 221 m (modelled)Oct 16Oct 16, 2021 — seafloor 255 m (measured), deepest dive 39 m (modelled)Oct 16, 2021 — seafloor 297 m (measured), deepest dive 56 m (modelled)Oct 16, 2021 — seafloor 55 m (measured), deepest dive 46 m (modelled)Oct 16Oct 17, 2021 — seafloor 93 m (measured), deepest dive 35 m (modelled)Oct 18, 2021 — seafloor 60 m (measured), deepest dive 26 m (modelled)Oct 19, 2021 — seafloor 88 m (measured), deepest dive 75 m (modelled)Oct 19Oct 23, 2021 — seafloor 102 m (measured), deepest dive 40 m (modelled)Oct 23, 2021 — seafloor 394 m (measured), deepest dive 120 m (modelled)Oct 23, 2021 — seafloor 298 m (measured), deepest dive 68 m (modelled)Oct 23

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

Dives

221 m
Deepest dive
9:13
Longest dive
111
Dives
23 m
Avg dive depth
13
Sightings
8
Days first → last

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Dive profile

modelled
0125250221 mstartdive sequence (illustrative)

Depth shaped by the seafloor limit here (1,055 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 16, 2021

measured
Seafloor depth
1,055 m
Sea-surface temperature
14.0°C
Distance from shore
13.0 km

Across the residency · 13 sightings

measured
Seafloor depth
55 m – 1,055 m
Sea-surface temperature
13.0°C – 14.1°C
Distance from shore
4.0 km – 14.0 km

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

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Source records

This activity is assembled from 13 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.

The photographs and fluke identifications behind every sighting are the work of the contributing observers — the citizen scientists, naturalists and operators who logged them, each named in the underlying GBIF occurrence record. Every activity links out to its source encounters on Happywhale. Basemaps © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL).

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