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Monterey Bay

Whale Awareness Ribbon – Residency

22nd sighting in Monterey Bay
Fluke of Whale Awareness Ribbon
Whale Awareness Ribbon Confirmed in the catalog @15384
Apr 29 – Aug 2, 2018 · Monterey Bay

Monterey Bay · Apr – Aug 2018

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Deepest dive
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Longest dive
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Dives
Sightings
22
Days between first and last sighting
95

Dive stats modelled within real depth limits — not measured

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SightingSeafloorSea tempDeepest dive (modelled)
Apr 29, 201869 m13.3°C—
May 8, 2018108 m12.4°C—
May 16, 201847 m12.7°C—
Jun 3, 201886 m12.9°C—
Jun 10, 201886 m11.6°C—
Jun 11, 201864 m11.5°C—
Jun 13, 201871 m11.9°C—
Jun 14, 201857 m——
Jun 15, 201863 m12.5°C—
Jun 16, 2018254 m12.9°C—
Jun 22, 2018359 m12.7°C—
Jun 30, 201866 m13.7°C—
Jul 1, 201865 m13.9°C—
Jul 4, 201876 m15.1°C—
Jul 11, 2018105 m14.3°C—
Jul 14, 201878 m14.4°C—
Jul 18, 2018128 m14.7°C—
Jul 20, 201853 m16.1°C—

Seafloor and sea temperature measured · ✳ dives modelled ·

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Deepest dive against the seafloor, per sighting

Seafloor · measured Deepest dive · modelled
Apr 29, 2018 — seafloor 69 m (measured), deepest dive — (modelled)Apr 29May 8, 2018 — seafloor 108 m (measured), deepest dive — (modelled)May 16, 2018 — seafloor 47 m (measured), deepest dive — (modelled)Jun 3, 2018 — seafloor 86 m (measured), deepest dive — (modelled)Jun 10, 2018 — seafloor 86 m (measured), deepest dive — (modelled)Jun 10Jun 11, 2018 — seafloor 64 m (measured), deepest dive — (modelled)Jun 13, 2018 — seafloor 71 m (measured), deepest dive — (modelled)Jun 14, 2018 — seafloor 57 m (measured), deepest dive — (modelled)Jun 15, 2018 — seafloor 63 m (measured), deepest dive — (modelled)Jun 15Jun 16, 2018 — seafloor 254 m (measured), deepest dive — (modelled)Jun 22, 2018 — seafloor 359 m (measured), deepest dive — (modelled)Jun 30, 2018 — seafloor 66 m (measured), deepest dive — (modelled)Jul 1, 2018 — seafloor 65 m (measured), deepest dive — (modelled)Jul 1Jul 4, 2018 — seafloor 76 m (measured), deepest dive — (modelled)Jul 11, 2018 — seafloor 105 m (measured), deepest dive — (modelled)Jul 14, 2018 — seafloor 78 m (measured), deepest dive — (modelled)Jul 18, 2018 — seafloor 128 m (measured), deepest dive — (modelled)Jul 18Jul 20, 2018 — seafloor 53 m (measured), deepest dive — (modelled)Jul 23, 2018 — seafloor 175 m (measured), deepest dive — (modelled)Jul 25, 2018 — seafloor 69 m (measured), deepest dive — (modelled)Jul 28, 2018 — seafloor 60 m (measured), deepest dive — (modelled)Jul 28Aug 2, 2018 — seafloor 60 m (measured), deepest dive — (modelled)

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

Dives

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Deepest dive
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Longest dive
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Dives
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Avg dive depth
22
Sightings
95
Days first → last

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Dive profile

modelled
02550startdive sequence (illustrative)

Modelled from the published dive-behaviour distribution. Not measured.

Deep Effort Score

Deep

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Place

Where this happened · Aug 2, 2018

measured
Seafloor depth
60 m
Sea-surface temperature
13.8°C
Distance from shore
2.0 km

Across the residency · 22 sightings

measured
Seafloor depth
47 m – 359 m
Sea-surface temperature
11.5°C – 17.0°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 22 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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