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Monterey Bay

CRC-16495 – Residency

48th sighting in Monterey Bay
Fluke of CRC-16495
CRC-16495 Confirmed in the catalog @19898
Jul 25 – Aug 30, 2019 · Monterey Bay

Monterey Bay · Jul – Aug 2019

110 m
Deepest dive
4:29
Longest dive
108
Dives
Sightings
17
Days between first and last sighting
36
Deepest dive on record
110 m · this residency

Dive stats modelled within real depth limits — not measured

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SightingSeafloorSea tempDeepest dive (modelled)
Jul 25, 201961 m15.1°C—
Jul 26, 201983 m15.2°C—
Jul 26, 201979 m15.1°C—
Jul 27, 201973 m15.0°C—
Jul 28, 201955 m14.7°C—
Jul 28, 201938 m14.7°C—
Jul 29, 201966 m14.7°C—
Jul 30, 201994 m14.5°C—
Aug 2, 2019285 m14.6°C—
Aug 3, 201956 m14.4°C—
Aug 8, 201985 m13.2°C27 m
Aug 9, 201961 m13.0°C51 m
Aug 9, 201954 m13.0°C36 m
Aug 10, 201979 m13.3°C72 m
Aug 24, 2019469 m15.5°C110 m
Aug 29, 201999 m16.0°C86 m
Aug 30, 201994 m16.1°C20 m

Seafloor and sea temperature measured · ✳ dives modelled

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Deepest dive against the seafloor, per sighting

Seafloor · measured Deepest dive · modelled
Jul 25, 2019 — seafloor 61 m (measured), deepest dive — (modelled)Jul 25Jul 26, 2019 — seafloor 83 m (measured), deepest dive — (modelled)Jul 26, 2019 — seafloor 79 m (measured), deepest dive — (modelled)Jul 27, 2019 — seafloor 73 m (measured), deepest dive — (modelled)Jul 27Jul 28, 2019 — seafloor 55 m (measured), deepest dive — (modelled)Jul 28, 2019 — seafloor 38 m (measured), deepest dive — (modelled)Jul 29, 2019 — seafloor 66 m (measured), deepest dive — (modelled)Jul 29Jul 30, 2019 — seafloor 94 m (measured), deepest dive — (modelled)Aug 2, 2019 — seafloor 285 m (measured), deepest dive — (modelled)Aug 3, 2019 — seafloor 56 m (measured), deepest dive — (modelled)Aug 3Aug 8, 2019 — seafloor 85 m (measured), deepest dive 27 m (modelled)Aug 9, 2019 — seafloor 61 m (measured), deepest dive 51 m (modelled)Aug 9, 2019 — seafloor 54 m (measured), deepest dive 36 m (modelled)Aug 9Aug 10, 2019 — seafloor 79 m (measured), deepest dive 72 m (modelled)Aug 24, 2019 — seafloor 469 m (measured), deepest dive 110 m (modelled)Aug 29, 2019 — seafloor 99 m (measured), deepest dive 86 m (modelled)Aug 29Aug 30, 2019 — seafloor 94 m (measured), deepest dive 20 m (modelled)

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

Dives

110 m
Deepest dive
4:29
Longest dive
108
Dives
21 m
Avg dive depth
17
Sightings
36
Days first → last

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Dive profile

modelled
075150110 mstartdive sequence (illustrative)

Depth shaped by the seafloor limit here (469 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 24, 2019

measured
Seafloor depth
469 m
Sea-surface temperature
15.5°C
Distance from shore
9.0 km

Across the residency · 17 sightings

measured
Seafloor depth
38 m – 469 m
Sea-surface temperature
13.0°C – 16.1°C
Distance from shore
2.0 km – 12.0 km

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

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Source records

This activity is assembled from 17 catalogued encounters on Happywhale.

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