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Banderas Bay

Cooper – Residency

7th sighting in Banderas Bay
Fluke of Cooper
Cooper Confirmed in the catalog @14664
Dec 19 – 28, 2021 · Banderas Bay

Banderas Bay · Dec 2021

53 m
Deepest dive
2:49
Longest dive
23
Dives
Sightings
3
Days between first and last sighting
9

Dive stats modelled within real depth limits — not measured

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SightingSeafloorSea tempDeepest dive (modelled)
Dec 19, 202164 m25.8°C53 m
Dec 23, 202151 m25.6°C31 m
Dec 28, 202165 m25.7°C52 m

Seafloor and sea temperature measured · ✳ dives modelled

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Deepest dive against the seafloor, per sighting

Seafloor · measured Deepest dive · modelled
Dec 19, 2021 — seafloor 64 m (measured), deepest dive 53 m (modelled)Dec 19Dec 23, 2021 — seafloor 51 m (measured), deepest dive 31 m (modelled)Dec 23Dec 28, 2021 — seafloor 65 m (measured), deepest dive 52 m (modelled)Dec 28

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

Dives

53 m
Deepest dive
2:49
Longest dive
23
Dives
21 m
Avg dive depth
3
Sightings
9
Days first → last

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Dive profile

modelled
05010053 mstartdive sequence (illustrative)

Depth shaped by the seafloor limit here (64 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 · Dec 19, 2021

measured
Seafloor depth
64 m
Sea-surface temperature
25.8°C
Distance from shore
7.0 km

Across the residency · 3 sightings

measured
Seafloor depth
51 m – 65 m
Sea-surface temperature
25.6°C – 25.8°C
Distance from shore
4.0 km – 7.0 km

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

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Source records

This activity is assembled from 3 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.

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