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Monterey Bay

Angel Wing – Residency

175th sighting in Monterey Bay
Fluke of Angel Wing
Angel Wing Confirmed in the catalog @18
Jul 19 – Nov 20, 2022 · Monterey Bay

Summer in the Bay

Four months of perfect feeding grounds, nowhere else I'd rather be.

180 m
Deepest dive
6:05
Longest dive
284
Dives
Sightings
30
Days between first and last sighting
124

Dive stats modelled within real depth limits — not measured

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SightingSeafloorSea tempDeepest dive (modelled)
Jul 19, 202296 m15.0°C75 m
Jul 22, 202286 m15.0°C49 m
Jul 24, 202281 m14.9°C71 m
Jul 28, 2022105 m14.5°C39 m
Aug 1, 2022567 m15.5°C66 m
Aug 3, 2022109 m15.7°C35 m
Aug 5, 202279 m16.1°C36 m
Aug 7, 2022212 m16.5°C60 m
Aug 15, 2022144 m15.9°C47 m
Aug 19, 2022441 m14.3°C35 m
Aug 22, 2022110 m13.4°C75 m
Aug 30, 202270 m16.0°C47 m
Aug 31, 202295 m16.1°C67 m
Sep 4, 202280 m16.1°C37 m
Sep 7, 2022119 m16.4°C34 m
Sep 10, 202278 m16.1°C64 m
Sep 11, 202261 m16.0°C40 m
Sep 12, 2022168 m16.0°C82 m

Seafloor and sea temperature measured · ✳ dives modelled ·

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Deepest dive against the seafloor, per sighting

Seafloor · measured Deepest dive · modelled
Jul 19, 2022 — seafloor 96 m (measured), deepest dive 75 m (modelled)Jul 19Jul 22, 2022 — seafloor 86 m (measured), deepest dive 49 m (modelled)Jul 24, 2022 — seafloor 81 m (measured), deepest dive 71 m (modelled)Jul 28, 2022 — seafloor 105 m (measured), deepest dive 39 m (modelled)Aug 1, 2022 — seafloor 567 m (measured), deepest dive 66 m (modelled)Aug 3, 2022 — seafloor 109 m (measured), deepest dive 35 m (modelled)Aug 3Aug 5, 2022 — seafloor 79 m (measured), deepest dive 36 m (modelled)Aug 7, 2022 — seafloor 212 m (measured), deepest dive 60 m (modelled)Aug 15, 2022 — seafloor 144 m (measured), deepest dive 47 m (modelled)Aug 19, 2022 — seafloor 441 m (measured), deepest dive 35 m (modelled)Aug 22, 2022 — seafloor 110 m (measured), deepest dive 75 m (modelled)Aug 22Aug 30, 2022 — seafloor 70 m (measured), deepest dive 47 m (modelled)Aug 31, 2022 — seafloor 95 m (measured), deepest dive 67 m (modelled)Sep 4, 2022 — seafloor 80 m (measured), deepest dive 37 m (modelled)Sep 7, 2022 — seafloor 119 m (measured), deepest dive 34 m (modelled)Sep 10, 2022 — seafloor 78 m (measured), deepest dive 64 m (modelled)Sep 10Sep 11, 2022 — seafloor 61 m (measured), deepest dive 40 m (modelled)Sep 12, 2022 — seafloor 168 m (measured), deepest dive 82 m (modelled)Sep 15, 2022 — seafloor 168 m (measured), deepest dive 132 m (modelled)Sep 16, 2022 — seafloor 57 m (measured), deepest dive 51 m (modelled)Sep 21, 2022 — seafloor 62 m (measured), deepest dive 22 m (modelled)Sep 21Sep 22, 2022 — seafloor 81 m (measured), deepest dive 59 m (modelled)Sep 24, 2022 — seafloor 926 m (measured), deepest dive 52 m (modelled)Sep 25, 2022 — seafloor 110 m (measured), deepest dive 56 m (modelled)Sep 26, 2022 — seafloor 111 m (measured), deepest dive 29 m (modelled)Oct 6, 2022 — seafloor 567 m (measured), deepest dive 180 m (modelled)Oct 6Oct 15, 2022 — seafloor 567 m (measured), deepest dive 111 m (modelled)Oct 16, 2022 — seafloor 56 m (measured), deepest dive 33 m (modelled)Nov 13, 2022 — seafloor 567 m (measured), deepest dive 77 m (modelled)Nov 20, 2022 — seafloor 110 m (measured), deepest dive 54 m (modelled)

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

Dives

180 m
Deepest dive
6:05
Longest dive
284
Dives
25 m
Avg dive depth
30
Sightings
124
Days first → last

Dive metrics are modelled within real depth limits — not measured

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Dive profile

modelled
0100200180 mstartdive sequence (illustrative)

Depth shaped by the seafloor limit here (567 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 6, 2022

measured
Seafloor depth
567 m
Sea-surface temperature
16.8°C
Distance from shore
16.0 km

Across the residency · 30 sightings

measured
Seafloor depth
56 m – 926 m
Sea-surface temperature
12.2°C – 16.8°C
Distance from shore
2.0 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 30 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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