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Monterey Bay

Akimbo – Residency

73rd sighting in Monterey Bay
Fluke of Akimbo
Akimbo Confirmed in the catalog @204
May 4 – Aug 7, 2023 · Monterey Bay

Summer in the Bay

Three months of perfect feeding grounds, where the krill runs thick and familiar.

88 m
Deepest dive
3:28
Longest dive
153
Dives
Sightings
12
Days between first and last sighting
95

Dive stats modelled within real depth limits — not measured

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SightingSeafloorSea tempDeepest dive (modelled)
May 4, 2023189 m12.0°C63 m
May 5, 202378 m12.1°C67 m
May 12, 202362 m13.6°C43 m
Jul 24, 2023103 m14.4°C75 m
Jul 25, 202357 m15.0°C51 m
Jul 27, 202393 m14.4°C49 m
Jul 31, 202388 m13.7°C65 m
Jul 31, 2023108 m13.4°C37 m
Aug 1, 202396 m14.0°C88 m
Aug 1, 2023567 m14.1°C84 m
Aug 7, 2023567 m13.3°C63 m
Aug 7, 202393 m13.2°C48 m

Seafloor and sea temperature measured · ✳ dives modelled

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Deepest dive against the seafloor, per sighting

Seafloor · measured Deepest dive · modelled
May 4, 2023 — seafloor 189 m (measured), deepest dive 63 m (modelled)May 4May 5, 2023 — seafloor 78 m (measured), deepest dive 67 m (modelled)May 5May 12, 2023 — seafloor 62 m (measured), deepest dive 43 m (modelled)May 12Jul 24, 2023 — seafloor 103 m (measured), deepest dive 75 m (modelled)Jul 24Jul 25, 2023 — seafloor 57 m (measured), deepest dive 51 m (modelled)Jul 25Jul 27, 2023 — seafloor 93 m (measured), deepest dive 49 m (modelled)Jul 27Jul 31, 2023 — seafloor 88 m (measured), deepest dive 65 m (modelled)Jul 31Jul 31, 2023 — seafloor 108 m (measured), deepest dive 37 m (modelled)Jul 31Aug 1, 2023 — seafloor 96 m (measured), deepest dive 88 m (modelled)Aug 1Aug 1, 2023 — seafloor 567 m (measured), deepest dive 84 m (modelled)Aug 1Aug 7, 2023 — seafloor 567 m (measured), deepest dive 63 m (modelled)Aug 7Aug 7, 2023 — seafloor 93 m (measured), deepest dive 48 m (modelled)Aug 7

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

Dives

88 m
Deepest dive
3:28
Longest dive
153
Dives
25 m
Avg dive depth
12
Sightings
95
Days first → last

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Dive profile

modelled
05010088 mstartdive sequence (illustrative)

Depth shaped by the seafloor limit here (96 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 1, 2023

measured
Seafloor depth
96 m
Sea-surface temperature
14.0°C
Distance from shore
9.0 km

Across the residency · 12 sightings

measured
Seafloor depth
57 m – 567 m
Sea-surface temperature
12.0°C – 15.0°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 12 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).

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