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Monterey Bay

Condor – Residency

62nd sighting in Monterey Bay
Fluke of Condor
Condor Confirmed in the catalog @1941
Mar 18 – Aug 9, 2019 · Monterey Bay

Monterey Bay · Mar – Aug 2019

33 m
Deepest dive
1:20
Longest dive
7
Dives
Sightings
14
Days between first and last sighting
144

Dive stats modelled within real depth limits — not measured

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SightingSeafloorSea tempDeepest dive (modelled)
Mar 18, 2019110 m13.5°C—
Mar 23, 201952 m13.2°C—
Mar 24, 2019124 m13.5°C—
Mar 28, 2019146 m13.5°C—
May 5, 2019286 m13.8°C—
Jul 25, 2019827 m15.3°C—
Jul 25, 201968 m15.1°C—
Jul 29, 2019567 m14.9°C—
Jul 29, 201957 m14.7°C—
Jul 30, 201997 m14.5°C—
Jul 31, 201943 m14.6°C—
Aug 1, 2019567 m14.8°C—
Aug 7, 2019132 m13.3°C—
Aug 9, 201971 m13.0°C33 m

Seafloor and sea temperature measured · ✳ dives modelled

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Deepest dive against the seafloor, per sighting

Seafloor · measured Deepest dive · modelled
Mar 18, 2019 — seafloor 110 m (measured), deepest dive — (modelled)Mar 18Mar 23, 2019 — seafloor 52 m (measured), deepest dive — (modelled)Mar 24, 2019 — seafloor 124 m (measured), deepest dive — (modelled)Mar 28, 2019 — seafloor 146 m (measured), deepest dive — (modelled)Mar 28May 5, 2019 — seafloor 286 m (measured), deepest dive — (modelled)Jul 25, 2019 — seafloor 827 m (measured), deepest dive — (modelled)Jul 25, 2019 — seafloor 68 m (measured), deepest dive — (modelled)Jul 25Jul 29, 2019 — seafloor 567 m (measured), deepest dive — (modelled)Jul 29, 2019 — seafloor 57 m (measured), deepest dive — (modelled)Jul 30, 2019 — seafloor 97 m (measured), deepest dive — (modelled)Jul 30Jul 31, 2019 — seafloor 43 m (measured), deepest dive — (modelled)Aug 1, 2019 — seafloor 567 m (measured), deepest dive — (modelled)Aug 7, 2019 — seafloor 132 m (measured), deepest dive — (modelled)Aug 7Aug 9, 2019 — seafloor 71 m (measured), deepest dive 33 m (modelled)

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

Dives

33 m
Deepest dive
1:20
Longest dive
7
Dives
15 m
Avg dive depth
14
Sightings
144
Days first → last

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Dive profile

modelled
0255033 mstartdive sequence (illustrative)

Depth shaped by the seafloor limit here (71 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 9, 2019

measured
Seafloor depth
71 m
Sea-surface temperature
13.0°C
Distance from shore
3.0 km

Across the residency · 14 sightings

measured
Seafloor depth
43 m – 827 m
Sea-surface temperature
13.0°C – 15.3°C
Distance from shore
2.0 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 14 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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