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Monterey Bay

Batman – Residency

61st sighting in Monterey Bay
Fluke of Batman
Batman Confirmed in the catalog @146
Aug 19 – Oct 27, 2024 · Monterey Bay

Autumn in the Bay

The krill are thick here and I know these waters like an old song.

93 m
Deepest dive
3:46
Longest dive
81
Dives
Sightings
9
Days between first and last sighting
69

Dive stats modelled within real depth limits — not measured

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SightingSeafloorSea tempDeepest dive (modelled)
Aug 19, 2024110 m14.9°C57 m
Aug 20, 202486 m14.8°C38 m
Oct 1, 202475 m16.3°C57 m
Oct 2, 2024494 m16.5°C83 m
Oct 19, 2024231 m14.5°C93 m
Oct 21, 202470 m14.5°C44 m
Oct 24, 202474 m14.5°C44 m
Oct 26, 202476 m14.5°C68 m
Oct 27, 202440 m13.4°C29 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 19, 2024 — seafloor 110 m (measured), deepest dive 57 m (modelled)Aug 19Aug 20, 2024 — seafloor 86 m (measured), deepest dive 38 m (modelled)Aug 20Oct 1, 2024 — seafloor 75 m (measured), deepest dive 57 m (modelled)Oct 1Oct 2, 2024 — seafloor 494 m (measured), deepest dive 83 m (modelled)Oct 2Oct 19, 2024 — seafloor 231 m (measured), deepest dive 93 m (modelled)Oct 19Oct 21, 2024 — seafloor 70 m (measured), deepest dive 44 m (modelled)Oct 21Oct 24, 2024 — seafloor 74 m (measured), deepest dive 44 m (modelled)Oct 24Oct 26, 2024 — seafloor 76 m (measured), deepest dive 68 m (modelled)Oct 26Oct 27, 2024 — seafloor 40 m (measured), deepest dive 29 m (modelled)Oct 27

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

Dives

93 m
Deepest dive
3:46
Longest dive
81
Dives
25 m
Avg dive depth
9
Sightings
69
Days first → last

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Dive profile

modelled
05010093 mstartdive sequence (illustrative)

Depth shaped by the seafloor limit here (231 m) and the published dive-behaviour distribution. Modelled, not measured.

Deep Effort Score

Deep

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Place

Where this happened · Oct 19, 2024

measured
Seafloor depth
231 m
Sea-surface temperature
14.5°C
Distance from shore
7.0 km

Across the residency · 9 sightings

measured
Seafloor depth
40 m – 494 m
Sea-surface temperature
13.4°C – 16.5°C
Distance from shore
2.0 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 9 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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