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Monterey Bay

Check – Residency

14th sighting in Monterey Bay
Fluke of Check
Check Confirmed in the catalog @2
Mar 19 – Oct 5, 2017 · Monterey Bay

Monterey Bay · Mar – Oct 2017

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Deepest dive
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Longest dive
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Dives
Sightings
8
Days between first and last sighting
200

Dive stats modelled within real depth limits — not measured

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SightingSeafloorSea tempDeepest dive (modelled)
Mar 19, 201720 m13.1°C—
Jun 13, 201755 m12.4°C—
Aug 26, 2017103 m15.7°C—
Aug 30, 201773 m15.5°C—
Sep 14, 2017254 m17.6°C—
Sep 28, 2017111 m15.3°C—
Sep 29, 201729 m14.6°C—
Oct 5, 201796 m13.5°C—

Seafloor and sea temperature measured · ✳ dives modelled

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Deepest dive against the seafloor, per sighting

Seafloor · measured Deepest dive · modelled
Mar 19, 2017 — seafloor 20 m (measured), deepest dive — (modelled)Mar 19Jun 13, 2017 — seafloor 55 m (measured), deepest dive — (modelled)Jun 13Aug 26, 2017 — seafloor 103 m (measured), deepest dive — (modelled)Aug 26Aug 30, 2017 — seafloor 73 m (measured), deepest dive — (modelled)Aug 30Sep 14, 2017 — seafloor 254 m (measured), deepest dive — (modelled)Sep 14Sep 28, 2017 — seafloor 111 m (measured), deepest dive — (modelled)Sep 28Sep 29, 2017 — seafloor 29 m (measured), deepest dive — (modelled)Sep 29Oct 5, 2017 — seafloor 96 m (measured), deepest dive — (modelled)Oct 5

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

Dives

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Deepest dive
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Longest dive
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Dives
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Avg dive depth
8
Sightings
200
Days first → last

Dive metrics are modelled within real depth limits — not measured

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Dive profile

modelled
02550startdive sequence (illustrative)

Modelled from the published dive-behaviour distribution. 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 5, 2017

measured
Seafloor depth
96 m
Sea-surface temperature
13.5°C
Distance from shore
15.0 km

Across the residency · 8 sightings

measured
Seafloor depth
20 m – 254 m
Sea-surface temperature
12.4°C – 17.6°C
Distance from shore
2.0 km – 15.0 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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