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Monterey Bay

Flopsy – Residency

76th sighting in Monterey Bay
Fluke of Flopsy
Flopsy Confirmed in the catalog @1392
Sep 12 – Oct 24, 2022 · Monterey Bay

Monterey Bay Marathon

Six weeks of perfect feeding, why leave when the krill keeps coming?

173 m
Deepest dive
6:48
Longest dive
201
Dives
Sightings
12
Days between first and last sighting
42

Dive stats modelled within real depth limits — not measured

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SightingSeafloorSea tempDeepest dive (modelled)
Sep 12, 2022567 m15.9°C68 m
Sep 15, 202283 m15.3°C59 m
Sep 25, 202285 m16.2°C59 m
Sep 26, 202252 m16.2°C42 m
Oct 6, 2022567 m16.8°C82 m
Oct 9, 202274 m15.3°C41 m
Oct 14, 2022104 m15.3°C81 m
Oct 14, 2022249 m15.1°C86 m
Oct 15, 2022567 m14.6°C159 m
Oct 16, 2022182 m14.4°C134 m
Oct 20, 2022567 m15.1°C173 m
Oct 24, 202250 m13.6°C43 m

Seafloor and sea temperature measured · ✳ dives modelled

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Deepest dive against the seafloor, per sighting

Seafloor · measured Deepest dive · modelled
Sep 12, 2022 — seafloor 567 m (measured), deepest dive 68 m (modelled)Sep 12Sep 15, 2022 — seafloor 83 m (measured), deepest dive 59 m (modelled)Sep 15Sep 25, 2022 — seafloor 85 m (measured), deepest dive 59 m (modelled)Sep 25Sep 26, 2022 — seafloor 52 m (measured), deepest dive 42 m (modelled)Sep 26Oct 6, 2022 — seafloor 567 m (measured), deepest dive 82 m (modelled)Oct 6Oct 9, 2022 — seafloor 74 m (measured), deepest dive 41 m (modelled)Oct 9Oct 14, 2022 — seafloor 104 m (measured), deepest dive 81 m (modelled)Oct 14Oct 14, 2022 — seafloor 249 m (measured), deepest dive 86 m (modelled)Oct 14Oct 15, 2022 — seafloor 567 m (measured), deepest dive 159 m (modelled)Oct 15Oct 16, 2022 — seafloor 182 m (measured), deepest dive 134 m (modelled)Oct 16Oct 20, 2022 — seafloor 567 m (measured), deepest dive 173 m (modelled)Oct 20Oct 24, 2022 — seafloor 50 m (measured), deepest dive 43 m (modelled)Oct 24

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

Dives

173 m
Deepest dive
6:48
Longest dive
201
Dives
30 m
Avg dive depth
12
Sightings
42
Days first → last

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Dive profile

modelled
0100200173 mstartdive sequence (illustrative)

Depth shaped by the seafloor limit here (567 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 20, 2022

measured
Seafloor depth
567 m
Sea-surface temperature
15.1°C
Distance from shore
16.0 km

Across the residency · 12 sightings

measured
Seafloor depth
50 m – 567 m
Sea-surface temperature
13.6°C – 16.8°C
Distance from shore
4.0 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 12 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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