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Monterey Bay

Cookie Monster – Residency

6th sighting in Monterey Bay
Fluke of Cookie Monster
Cookie Monster Confirmed in the catalog @16
May 3 – Jul 19, 2015 · Monterey Bay

Monterey Bay · May – Jul 2015

152 m
Deepest dive
4:29
Longest dive
39
Dives
Sightings
5
Days between first and last sighting
77
Deepest dive on record
152 m · this residency

Dive stats modelled within real depth limits — not measured

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SightingSeafloorSea tempDeepest dive (modelled)
May 3, 2015254 m12.7°C98 m
May 4, 2015567 m11.7°C63 m
May 22, 2015254 m12.9°C28 m
Jun 1, 201590 m13.2°C80 m
Jul 19, 2015335 m17.4°C152 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 3, 2015 — seafloor 254 m (measured), deepest dive 98 m (modelled)May 3May 4, 2015 — seafloor 567 m (measured), deepest dive 63 m (modelled)May 4May 22, 2015 — seafloor 254 m (measured), deepest dive 28 m (modelled)May 22Jun 1, 2015 — seafloor 90 m (measured), deepest dive 80 m (modelled)Jun 1Jul 19, 2015 — seafloor 335 m (measured), deepest dive 152 m (modelled)Jul 19

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

Dives

152 m
Deepest dive
4:29
Longest dive
39
Dives
37 m
Avg dive depth
5
Sightings
77
Days first → last

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Dive profile

modelled
0100200152 mstartdive sequence (illustrative)

Depth shaped by the seafloor limit here (335 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 · Jul 19, 2015

measured
Seafloor depth
335 m
Sea-surface temperature
17.4°C
Distance from shore
7.0 km

Across the residency · 5 sightings

measured
Seafloor depth
90 m – 567 m
Sea-surface temperature
11.7°C – 17.4°C
Distance from shore
3.0 km – 16.0 km

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

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Source records

This activity is assembled from 5 catalogued encounters on Happywhale.

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