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Banderas Bay

Cooper – Residency

4th sighting in Banderas Bay
Fluke of Cooper
Cooper Confirmed in the catalog @14664
Jan 19 – Mar 18, 2018 · Banderas Bay

Banderas Bay · Jan – Mar 2018

86 m
Deepest dive
3:22
Longest dive
42
Dives
Sightings
4
Days between first and last sighting
58

Dive stats modelled within real depth limits — not measured

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SightingSeafloorSea tempDeepest dive (modelled)
Jan 19, 201888 m23.4°C37 m
Feb 3, 201868 m24.4°C53 m
Feb 8, 201858 m24.9°C48 m
Mar 18, 20181,673 m22.7°C86 m

Seafloor and sea temperature measured · ✳ dives modelled

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Deepest dive against the seafloor, per sighting

Seafloor · measured Deepest dive · modelled
Jan 19, 2018 — seafloor 88 m (measured), deepest dive 37 m (modelled)Jan 19Feb 3, 2018 — seafloor 68 m (measured), deepest dive 53 m (modelled)Feb 3Feb 8, 2018 — seafloor 58 m (measured), deepest dive 48 m (modelled)Feb 8Mar 18, 2018 — seafloor 1,673 m (measured), deepest dive 86 m (modelled)Mar 18

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

Dives

86 m
Deepest dive
3:22
Longest dive
42
Dives
24 m
Avg dive depth
4
Sightings
58
Days first → last

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Dive profile

modelled
05010086 mstartdive sequence (illustrative)

Depth shaped by the seafloor limit here (1,673 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 · Mar 18, 2018

measured
Seafloor depth
1,673 m
Sea-surface temperature
22.7°C
Distance from shore
14.0 km

Across the residency · 4 sightings

measured
Seafloor depth
58 m – 1,673 m
Sea-surface temperature
22.7°C – 24.9°C
Distance from shore
4.0 km – 14.0 km

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

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Source records

This activity is assembled from 4 catalogued encounters on Happywhale.

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