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Monterey Bay

Tidal – Residency

26th sighting in Monterey Bay
Fluke of Tidal
Tidal Confirmed in the catalog @14972
May 22 – Oct 5, 2023 · Monterey Bay

Monterey Bay · May – Oct 2023

133 m
Deepest dive
6:09
Longest dive
162
Dives
Sightings
12
Days between first and last sighting
136

Dive stats modelled within real depth limits — not measured

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SightingSeafloorSea tempDeepest dive (modelled)
May 22, 202320 m13.0°C18 m
Jun 16, 2023254 m15.1°C110 m
Jun 17, 2023103 m15.4°C46 m
Jun 17, 202371 m15.5°C29 m
Jun 18, 202368 m15.8°C58 m
Jul 22, 202397 m15.0°C71 m
Jul 24, 202322 m14.6°C13 m
Jul 26, 202397 m14.3°C83 m
Jul 31, 202395 m13.5°C68 m
Jul 31, 202349 m14.0°C32 m
Sep 22, 2023460 m16.5°C30 m
Oct 5, 2023147 m17.5°C133 m

Seafloor and sea temperature measured · ✳ dives modelled

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Deepest dive against the seafloor, per sighting

Seafloor · measured Deepest dive · modelled
May 22, 2023 — seafloor 20 m (measured), deepest dive 18 m (modelled)May 22Jun 16, 2023 — seafloor 254 m (measured), deepest dive 110 m (modelled)Jun 16Jun 17, 2023 — seafloor 103 m (measured), deepest dive 46 m (modelled)Jun 17Jun 17, 2023 — seafloor 71 m (measured), deepest dive 29 m (modelled)Jun 17Jun 18, 2023 — seafloor 68 m (measured), deepest dive 58 m (modelled)Jun 18Jul 22, 2023 — seafloor 97 m (measured), deepest dive 71 m (modelled)Jul 22Jul 24, 2023 — seafloor 22 m (measured), deepest dive 13 m (modelled)Jul 24Jul 26, 2023 — seafloor 97 m (measured), deepest dive 83 m (modelled)Jul 26Jul 31, 2023 — seafloor 95 m (measured), deepest dive 68 m (modelled)Jul 31Jul 31, 2023 — seafloor 49 m (measured), deepest dive 32 m (modelled)Jul 31Sep 22, 2023 — seafloor 460 m (measured), deepest dive 30 m (modelled)Sep 22Oct 5, 2023 — seafloor 147 m (measured), deepest dive 133 m (modelled)Oct 5

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

Dives

133 m
Deepest dive
6:09
Longest dive
162
Dives
22 m
Avg dive depth
12
Sightings
136
Days first → last

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Dive profile

modelled
075150133 mstartdive sequence (illustrative)

Depth shaped by the seafloor limit here (147 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 · Oct 5, 2023

measured
Seafloor depth
147 m
Sea-surface temperature
17.5°C
Distance from shore
5.0 km

Across the residency · 12 sightings

measured
Seafloor depth
20 m – 460 m
Sea-surface temperature
13.0°C – 17.5°C
Distance from shore
1.0 km – 11.0 km

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

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Source records

This activity is assembled from 12 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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