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Monterey Bay

CRC-15783 – Residency

13th sighting in Monterey Bay
Fluke of CRC-15783
CRC-15783 Confirmed in the catalog @1416
Aug 24 – Oct 16, 2018 · Monterey Bay

Monterey Bay · Aug – Oct 2018

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Deepest dive
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Longest dive
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Dives
Sightings
6
Days between first and last sighting
53

Dive stats modelled within real depth limits — not measured

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SightingSeafloorSea tempDeepest dive (modelled)
Aug 24, 201890 m16.0°C—
Aug 25, 201874 m16.0°C—
Aug 26, 2018239 m15.9°C—
Aug 29, 201872 m16.5°C—
Sep 2, 2018567 m16.4°C—
Oct 16, 2018247 m16.9°C—

Seafloor and sea temperature measured · ✳ dives modelled

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Deepest dive against the seafloor, per sighting

Seafloor · measured Deepest dive · modelled
Aug 24, 2018 — seafloor 90 m (measured), deepest dive — (modelled)Aug 24Aug 25, 2018 — seafloor 74 m (measured), deepest dive — (modelled)Aug 25Aug 26, 2018 — seafloor 239 m (measured), deepest dive — (modelled)Aug 26Aug 29, 2018 — seafloor 72 m (measured), deepest dive — (modelled)Aug 29Sep 2, 2018 — seafloor 567 m (measured), deepest dive — (modelled)Sep 2Oct 16, 2018 — seafloor 247 m (measured), deepest dive — (modelled)Oct 16

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

Dives

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Deepest dive
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Longest dive
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Dives
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Avg dive depth
6
Sightings
53
Days first → last

Dive metrics are modelled within real depth limits — not measured

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Dive profile

modelled
02550startdive sequence (illustrative)

Modelled from the published dive-behaviour distribution. 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, 2018

measured
Seafloor depth
247 m
Sea-surface temperature
16.9°C
Distance from shore
11.0 km

Across the residency · 6 sightings

measured
Seafloor depth
72 m – 567 m
Sea-surface temperature
15.9°C – 16.9°C
Distance from shore
5.0 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 6 catalogued encounters on Happywhale.

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