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Monterey Bay

CRC-11697 – Residency

23rd sighting in Monterey Bay
Fluke of CRC-11697
CRC-11697 Confirmed in the catalog @18528
Oct 4 – 15, 2022 · Monterey Bay

Monterey Bay · Oct 2022

120 m
Deepest dive
4:30
Longest dive
34
Dives
Sightings
4
Days between first and last sighting
11

Dive stats modelled within real depth limits — not measured

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SightingSeafloorSea tempDeepest dive (modelled)
Oct 4, 2022214 m16.1°C66 m
Oct 4, 2022262 m16.1°C120 m
Oct 5, 2022391 m16.1°C60 m
Oct 15, 2022182 m14.4°C87 m

Seafloor and sea temperature measured · ✳ dives modelled

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Deepest dive against the seafloor, per sighting

Seafloor · measured Deepest dive · modelled
Oct 4, 2022 — seafloor 214 m (measured), deepest dive 66 m (modelled)Oct 4Oct 4, 2022 — seafloor 262 m (measured), deepest dive 120 m (modelled)Oct 4Oct 5, 2022 — seafloor 391 m (measured), deepest dive 60 m (modelled)Oct 5Oct 15, 2022 — seafloor 182 m (measured), deepest dive 87 m (modelled)Oct 15

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

Dives

120 m
Deepest dive
4:30
Longest dive
34
Dives
37 m
Avg dive depth
4
Sightings
11
Days first → last

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Dive profile

modelled
075150120 mstartdive sequence (illustrative)

Depth shaped by the seafloor limit here (262 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 4, 2022

measured
Seafloor depth
262 m
Sea-surface temperature
16.1°C
Distance from shore
9.0 km

Across the residency · 4 sightings

measured
Seafloor depth
182 m – 391 m
Sea-surface temperature
14.4°C – 16.1°C
Distance from shore
5.0 km – 9.0 km

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

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Source records

This activity is assembled from 4 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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