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Monterey Bay

Condor – Residency

83rd sighting in Monterey Bay
Fluke of Condor
Condor Confirmed in the catalog @1941
Sep 3 – Oct 4, 2022 · Monterey Bay

Monterey Bay · Sep – Oct 2022

150 m
Deepest dive
6:50
Longest dive
84
Dives
Sightings
8
Days between first and last sighting
31

Dive stats modelled within real depth limits — not measured

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SightingSeafloorSea tempDeepest dive (modelled)
Sep 3, 2022567 m16.5°C150 m
Sep 17, 2022567 m15.2°C56 m
Sep 28, 202288 m16.2°C44 m
Sep 30, 2022141 m16.3°C60 m
Oct 2, 202286 m16.4°C46 m
Oct 3, 2022298 m16.2°C127 m
Oct 4, 2022214 m16.1°C93 m
Oct 4, 202288 m16.1°C80 m

Seafloor and sea temperature measured · ✳ dives modelled

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Deepest dive against the seafloor, per sighting

Seafloor · measured Deepest dive · modelled
Sep 3, 2022 — seafloor 567 m (measured), deepest dive 150 m (modelled)Sep 3Sep 17, 2022 — seafloor 567 m (measured), deepest dive 56 m (modelled)Sep 17Sep 28, 2022 — seafloor 88 m (measured), deepest dive 44 m (modelled)Sep 28Sep 30, 2022 — seafloor 141 m (measured), deepest dive 60 m (modelled)Sep 30Oct 2, 2022 — seafloor 86 m (measured), deepest dive 46 m (modelled)Oct 2Oct 3, 2022 — seafloor 298 m (measured), deepest dive 127 m (modelled)Oct 3Oct 4, 2022 — seafloor 214 m (measured), deepest dive 93 m (modelled)Oct 4Oct 4, 2022 — seafloor 88 m (measured), deepest dive 80 m (modelled)Oct 4

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

Dives

150 m
Deepest dive
6:50
Longest dive
84
Dives
28 m
Avg dive depth
8
Sightings
31
Days first → last

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Dive profile

modelled
0100200150 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 · Sep 3, 2022

measured
Seafloor depth
567 m
Sea-surface temperature
16.5°C
Distance from shore
16.0 km

Across the residency · 8 sightings

measured
Seafloor depth
86 m – 567 m
Sea-surface temperature
15.2°C – 16.5°C
Distance from shore
4.0 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 8 catalogued encounters on Happywhale.

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