Activity map — real sighting points on an OpenStreetMap basemap © OpenStreetMap contributors
Monterey Bay

Chopsticks – Residency

11th sighting in Monterey Bay
Fluke of Chopsticks
Chopsticks Confirmed in the catalog @20
Jun 6 – 23, 2015 · Monterey Bay

Monterey Bay · Jun 2015

210 m
Deepest dive
7:07
Longest dive
123
Dives
Sightings
9
Days between first and last sighting
18
Deepest dive on record
210 m · this residency

Dive stats modelled within real depth limits — not measured

Get actual dive data with Risa Deep →
SightingSeafloorSea tempDeepest dive (modelled)
Jun 6, 2015254 m—210 m
Jun 11, 201589 m—41 m
Jun 13, 2015145 m—116 m
Jun 14, 201527 m—21 m
Jun 15, 2015161 m—113 m
Jun 16, 2015127 m—38 m
Jun 20, 2015142 m—52 m
Jun 21, 201575 m—53 m
Jun 23, 2015238 m—67 m

Seafloor and sea temperature measured · ✳ dives modelled

Activity map — real sighting points on an OpenStreetMap basemap © OpenStreetMap contributors

Deepest dive against the seafloor, per sighting

Seafloor · measured Deepest dive · modelled
Jun 6, 2015 — seafloor 254 m (measured), deepest dive 210 m (modelled)Jun 6Jun 11, 2015 — seafloor 89 m (measured), deepest dive 41 m (modelled)Jun 11Jun 13, 2015 — seafloor 145 m (measured), deepest dive 116 m (modelled)Jun 13Jun 14, 2015 — seafloor 27 m (measured), deepest dive 21 m (modelled)Jun 14Jun 15, 2015 — seafloor 161 m (measured), deepest dive 113 m (modelled)Jun 15Jun 16, 2015 — seafloor 127 m (measured), deepest dive 38 m (modelled)Jun 16Jun 20, 2015 — seafloor 142 m (measured), deepest dive 52 m (modelled)Jun 20Jun 21, 2015 — seafloor 75 m (measured), deepest dive 53 m (modelled)Jun 21Jun 23, 2015 — seafloor 238 m (measured), deepest dive 67 m (modelled)Jun 23

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

Dives

210 m
Deepest dive
7:07
Longest dive
123
Dives
24 m
Avg dive depth
9
Sightings
18
Days first → last

Dive metrics are modelled within real depth limits — not measured

Get actual dive data with Risa Deep →

Dive profile

modelled
0125250210 mstartdive sequence (illustrative)

Depth shaped by the seafloor limit here (254 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.

Unlock with Risa Deep

Place

Where this happened · Jun 6, 2015

measured
Seafloor depth
254 m
Sea-surface temperature
—
Distance from shore
4.0 km

Across the residency · 9 sightings

measured
Seafloor depth
27 m – 254 m
Sea-surface temperature
—
Distance from shore
2.0 km – 5.0 km

Sources: GEBCO seafloor grid · PacIOOS coastline distance

Activity map — real sighting points on an OpenStreetMap basemap © OpenStreetMap contributors

Source records

This activity is assembled from 9 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.

The photographs and fluke identifications behind every sighting are the work of the contributing observers — the citizen scientists, naturalists and operators who logged them, each named in the underlying GBIF occurrence record. Every activity links out to its source encounters on Happywhale. Basemaps © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL).

Happywhale runs on donations: support Happywhale →

Breach is an independent project. It is not affiliated with, nor endorsed by, Happywhale or GBIF.