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Monterey Bay

Trident – Residency

3rd sighting in Monterey Bay
Fluke of Trident
Trident Confirmed in the catalog @1420
Jun 24 – 25, 2024 · Monterey Bay

Monterey Bay · Jun 2024

179 m
Deepest dive
4:13
Longest dive
22
Dives
Sightings
2
Days between first and last sighting
1
Deepest dive on record
179 m · this residency

Dive stats modelled within real depth limits — not measured

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SightingSeafloorSea tempDeepest dive (modelled)
Jun 24, 2024109 m—97 m
Jun 25, 2024263 m—179 m

Seafloor and sea temperature measured · ✳ dives modelled

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Deepest dive against the seafloor, per sighting

Seafloor · measured Deepest dive · modelled
Jun 24, 2024 — seafloor 109 m (measured), deepest dive 97 m (modelled)Jun 24Jun 25, 2024 — seafloor 263 m (measured), deepest dive 179 m (modelled)Jun 25

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

Dives

179 m
Deepest dive
4:13
Longest dive
22
Dives
51 m
Avg dive depth
2
Sightings
1
Days first → last

Dive metrics are modelled within real depth limits — not measured

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Dive profile

modelled
0100200179 mstartdive sequence (illustrative)

Depth shaped by the seafloor limit here (263 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 · Jun 25, 2024

measured
Seafloor depth
263 m
Sea-surface temperature
—
Distance from shore
12.0 km

Across the residency · 2 sightings

measured
Seafloor depth
109 m – 263 m
Sea-surface temperature
—
Distance from shore
10.0 km – 12.0 km

Sources: GEBCO seafloor grid · PacIOOS coastline distance

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Source records

This activity is assembled from 2 catalogued encounters on Happywhale.

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