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Monterey Bay

CRC-15774 – Residency

29th sighting in Monterey Bay
Fluke of CRC-15774
CRC-15774 Confirmed in the catalog @1396
Aug 7 – Nov 16, 2019 · Monterey Bay

Monterey Bay · Aug – Nov 2019

187 m
Deepest dive
6:47
Longest dive
128
Dives
Sightings
11
Days between first and last sighting
101
Deepest dive on record
187 m · this residency

Dive stats modelled within real depth limits — not measured

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SightingSeafloorSea tempDeepest dive (modelled)
Aug 7, 201972 m13.1°C—
Aug 10, 201979 m13.3°C53 m
Aug 25, 201995 m15.7°C49 m
Aug 28, 2019111 m16.0°C56 m
Aug 29, 201978 m16.0°C31 m
Sep 2, 2019562 m15.7°C88 m
Sep 3, 201977 m15.7°C37 m
Sep 6, 2019701 m15.3°C97 m
Oct 7, 2019396 m14.8°C187 m
Nov 15, 2019153 m14.0°C34 m
Nov 16, 2019145 m14.0°C114 m

Seafloor and sea temperature measured · ✳ dives modelled

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Deepest dive against the seafloor, per sighting

Seafloor · measured Deepest dive · modelled
Aug 7, 2019 — seafloor 72 m (measured), deepest dive — (modelled)Aug 7Aug 10, 2019 — seafloor 79 m (measured), deepest dive 53 m (modelled)Aug 10Aug 25, 2019 — seafloor 95 m (measured), deepest dive 49 m (modelled)Aug 25Aug 28, 2019 — seafloor 111 m (measured), deepest dive 56 m (modelled)Aug 28Aug 29, 2019 — seafloor 78 m (measured), deepest dive 31 m (modelled)Aug 29Sep 2, 2019 — seafloor 562 m (measured), deepest dive 88 m (modelled)Sep 2Sep 3, 2019 — seafloor 77 m (measured), deepest dive 37 m (modelled)Sep 3Sep 6, 2019 — seafloor 701 m (measured), deepest dive 97 m (modelled)Sep 6Oct 7, 2019 — seafloor 396 m (measured), deepest dive 187 m (modelled)Oct 7Nov 15, 2019 — seafloor 153 m (measured), deepest dive 34 m (modelled)Nov 15Nov 16, 2019 — seafloor 145 m (measured), deepest dive 114 m (modelled)Nov 16

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

Dives

187 m
Deepest dive
6:47
Longest dive
128
Dives
26 m
Avg dive depth
11
Sightings
101
Days first → last

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Dive profile

modelled
0100200187 mstartdive sequence (illustrative)

Depth shaped by the seafloor limit here (396 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 7, 2019

measured
Seafloor depth
396 m
Sea-surface temperature
14.8°C
Distance from shore
8.0 km

Across the residency · 11 sightings

measured
Seafloor depth
72 m – 701 m
Sea-surface temperature
13.1°C – 16.0°C
Distance from shore
5.0 km – 13.0 km

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

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Source records

This activity is assembled from 11 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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