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Monterey Bay

Condor – Residency

89th sighting in Monterey Bay
Fluke of Condor
Condor Confirmed in the catalog @1941
Sep 13 – Oct 24, 2024 · Monterey Bay

Monterey Bay · Sep – Oct 2024

156 m
Deepest dive
5:51
Longest dive
84
Dives
Sightings
6
Days between first and last sighting
41

Dive stats modelled within real depth limits — not measured

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SightingSeafloorSea tempDeepest dive (modelled)
Sep 13, 2024159 m15.6°C59 m
Oct 16, 202454 m15.5°C43 m
Oct 21, 202474 m14.5°C65 m
Oct 21, 2024567 m14.5°C152 m
Oct 22, 2024567 m14.5°C156 m
Oct 24, 2024114 m14.6°C65 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 13, 2024 — seafloor 159 m (measured), deepest dive 59 m (modelled)Sep 13Oct 16, 2024 — seafloor 54 m (measured), deepest dive 43 m (modelled)Oct 16Oct 21, 2024 — seafloor 74 m (measured), deepest dive 65 m (modelled)Oct 21Oct 21, 2024 — seafloor 567 m (measured), deepest dive 152 m (modelled)Oct 21Oct 22, 2024 — seafloor 567 m (measured), deepest dive 156 m (modelled)Oct 22Oct 24, 2024 — seafloor 114 m (measured), deepest dive 65 m (modelled)Oct 24

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

Dives

156 m
Deepest dive
5:51
Longest dive
84
Dives
27 m
Avg dive depth
6
Sightings
41
Days first → last

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Dive profile

modelled
0100200156 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 22, 2024

measured
Seafloor depth
567 m
Sea-surface temperature
14.5°C
Distance from shore
16.0 km

Across the residency · 6 sightings

measured
Seafloor depth
54 m – 567 m
Sea-surface temperature
14.5°C – 15.6°C
Distance from shore
3.0 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 6 catalogued encounters on Happywhale.

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