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Monterey Bay

Tidal – Residency

14th sighting in Monterey Bay
Fluke of Tidal
Tidal Confirmed in the catalog @14972
Aug 16 – Nov 12, 2018 · Monterey Bay

Monterey Bay · Aug – Nov 2018

86 m
Deepest dive
3:13
Longest dive
127
Dives
Sightings
13
Days between first and last sighting
88

Dive stats modelled within real depth limits — not measured

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SightingSeafloorSea tempDeepest dive (modelled)
Aug 16, 201897 m15.5°C86 m
Aug 17, 201892 m15.6°C51 m
Aug 18, 201890 m15.5°C78 m
Sep 9, 201855 m15.1°C39 m
Sep 19, 201867 m12.6°C57 m
Sep 23, 201856 m12.6°C46 m
Sep 23, 201843 m12.6°C35 m
Sep 28, 201844 m14.5°C32 m
Sep 29, 201853 m14.4°C48 m
Oct 2, 201895 m15.0°C48 m
Oct 4, 201880 m16.3°C38 m
Oct 18, 201893 m16.6°C55 m
Nov 12, 2018150 m14.4°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
Aug 16, 2018 — seafloor 97 m (measured), deepest dive 86 m (modelled)Aug 16Aug 17, 2018 — seafloor 92 m (measured), deepest dive 51 m (modelled)Aug 18, 2018 — seafloor 90 m (measured), deepest dive 78 m (modelled)Sep 9, 2018 — seafloor 55 m (measured), deepest dive 39 m (modelled)Sep 9Sep 19, 2018 — seafloor 67 m (measured), deepest dive 57 m (modelled)Sep 23, 2018 — seafloor 56 m (measured), deepest dive 46 m (modelled)Sep 23, 2018 — seafloor 43 m (measured), deepest dive 35 m (modelled)Sep 23Sep 28, 2018 — seafloor 44 m (measured), deepest dive 32 m (modelled)Sep 29, 2018 — seafloor 53 m (measured), deepest dive 48 m (modelled)Oct 2, 2018 — seafloor 95 m (measured), deepest dive 48 m (modelled)Oct 2Oct 4, 2018 — seafloor 80 m (measured), deepest dive 38 m (modelled)Oct 18, 2018 — seafloor 93 m (measured), deepest dive 55 m (modelled)Nov 12, 2018 — seafloor 150 m (measured), deepest dive 52 m (modelled)Nov 12

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

Dives

86 m
Deepest dive
3:13
Longest dive
127
Dives
22 m
Avg dive depth
13
Sightings
88
Days first → last

Dive metrics are modelled within real depth limits — not measured

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Dive profile

modelled
05010086 mstartdive sequence (illustrative)

Depth shaped by the seafloor limit here (97 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 · Aug 16, 2018

measured
Seafloor depth
97 m
Sea-surface temperature
15.5°C
Distance from shore
4.0 km

Across the residency · 13 sightings

measured
Seafloor depth
43 m – 150 m
Sea-surface temperature
12.6°C – 16.6°C
Distance from shore
2.0 km – 8.0 km

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

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Source records

This activity is assembled from 13 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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