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Monterey Bay

Angel Wing – Residency

13th sighting in Monterey Bay
Fluke of Angel Wing
Angel Wing Confirmed in the catalog @18
May 10 – Jul 2, 2015 · Monterey Bay

Monterey Bay · May – Jul 2015

196 m
Deepest dive
5:31
Longest dive
42
Dives
Sightings
5
Days between first and last sighting
53

Dive stats modelled within real depth limits — not measured

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SightingSeafloorSea tempDeepest dive (modelled)
May 10, 201553 m12.3°C39 m
May 16, 2015254 m12.3°C96 m
Jun 6, 2015254 m12.8°C196 m
Jun 21, 2015180 m13.8°C79 m
Jul 2, 2015291 m14.2°C66 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 10, 2015 — seafloor 53 m (measured), deepest dive 39 m (modelled)May 10May 16, 2015 — seafloor 254 m (measured), deepest dive 96 m (modelled)May 16Jun 6, 2015 — seafloor 254 m (measured), deepest dive 196 m (modelled)Jun 6Jun 21, 2015 — seafloor 180 m (measured), deepest dive 79 m (modelled)Jun 21Jul 2, 2015 — seafloor 291 m (measured), deepest dive 66 m (modelled)Jul 2

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

Dives

196 m
Deepest dive
5:31
Longest dive
42
Dives
32 m
Avg dive depth
5
Sightings
53
Days first → last

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Dive profile

modelled
0100200196 mstartdive sequence (illustrative)

Depth shaped by the seafloor limit here (254 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 · Jun 6, 2015

measured
Seafloor depth
254 m
Sea-surface temperature
12.8°C
Distance from shore
4.0 km

Across the residency · 5 sightings

measured
Seafloor depth
53 m – 291 m
Sea-surface temperature
12.3°C – 14.2°C
Distance from shore
3.0 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 5 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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