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Monterey Bay

Condor – Residency

74th sighting in Monterey Bay
Fluke of Condor
Condor Confirmed in the catalog @1941
Aug 20 – Sep 15, 2021 · Monterey Bay

Monterey Bay · Aug – Sep 2021

341 m
Deepest dive
9:10
Longest dive
70
Dives
Sightings
5
Days between first and last sighting
26
Deepest dive on record
341 m · this residency

Dive stats modelled within real depth limits — not measured

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SightingSeafloorSea tempDeepest dive (modelled)
Aug 20, 2021667 m15.7°C341 m
Aug 20, 2021567 m15.9°C92 m
Sep 14, 2021567 m16.5°C138 m
Sep 14, 202157 m16.8°C33 m
Sep 15, 2021321 m16.5°C51 m

Seafloor and sea temperature measured · ✳ dives modelled

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Deepest dive against the seafloor, per sighting

Seafloor · measured Deepest dive · modelled
Aug 20, 2021 — seafloor 667 m (measured), deepest dive 341 m (modelled)Aug 20Aug 20, 2021 — seafloor 567 m (measured), deepest dive 92 m (modelled)Aug 20Sep 14, 2021 — seafloor 567 m (measured), deepest dive 138 m (modelled)Sep 14Sep 14, 2021 — seafloor 57 m (measured), deepest dive 33 m (modelled)Sep 14Sep 15, 2021 — seafloor 321 m (measured), deepest dive 51 m (modelled)Sep 15

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

Dives

341 m
Deepest dive
9:10
Longest dive
70
Dives
28 m
Avg dive depth
5
Sightings
26
Days first → last

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Dive profile

modelled
0175350341 mstartdive sequence (illustrative)

Depth shaped by the seafloor limit here (667 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 · Aug 20, 2021

measured
Seafloor depth
667 m
Sea-surface temperature
15.7°C
Distance from shore
8.0 km

Across the residency · 5 sightings

measured
Seafloor depth
57 m – 667 m
Sea-surface temperature
15.7°C – 16.8°C
Distance from shore
8.0 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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