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Monterey Bay

CRC-15899 – Residency

30th sighting in Monterey Bay
Fluke of CRC-15899
CRC-15899 Confirmed in the catalog @1399
May 12 – Sep 17, 2019 · Monterey Bay

Monterey Bay · May – Sep 2019

84 m
Deepest dive
3:45
Longest dive
27
Dives
Sightings
5
Days between first and last sighting
128
Deepest dive on record
84 m · this residency

Dive stats modelled within real depth limits — not measured

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SightingSeafloorSea tempDeepest dive (modelled)
May 12, 20191,220 m14.7°C—
Jun 26, 2019954 m15.8°C—
Jun 26, 2019301 m15.8°C—
Aug 20, 20191,062 m16.1°C65 m
Sep 17, 2019112 m14.5°C84 m

Seafloor and sea temperature measured · ✳ dives modelled

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Deepest dive against the seafloor, per sighting

Seafloor · measured Deepest dive · modelled
May 12, 2019 — seafloor 1,220 m (measured), deepest dive — (modelled)May 12Jun 26, 2019 — seafloor 954 m (measured), deepest dive — (modelled)Jun 26Jun 26, 2019 — seafloor 301 m (measured), deepest dive — (modelled)Jun 26Aug 20, 2019 — seafloor 1,062 m (measured), deepest dive 65 m (modelled)Aug 20Sep 17, 2019 — seafloor 112 m (measured), deepest dive 84 m (modelled)Sep 17

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

Dives

84 m
Deepest dive
3:45
Longest dive
27
Dives
23 m
Avg dive depth
5
Sightings
128
Days first → last

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Dive profile

modelled
05010084 mstartdive sequence (illustrative)

Depth shaped by the seafloor limit here (112 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 · Sep 17, 2019

measured
Seafloor depth
112 m
Sea-surface temperature
14.5°C
Distance from shore
16.0 km

Across the residency · 5 sightings

measured
Seafloor depth
112 m – 1,220 m
Sea-surface temperature
14.5°C – 16.1°C
Distance from shore
7.0 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 5 catalogued encounters on Happywhale.

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