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Monterey Bay

Rafah – Residency

21st sighting in Monterey Bay
Fluke of Rafah
Rafah Confirmed in the catalog @21083
Aug 23 – Oct 16, 2018 · Monterey Bay

Monterey Bay · Aug – Oct 2018

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Deepest dive
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Longest dive
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Dives
Sightings
22
Days between first and last sighting
54

Dive stats modelled within real depth limits — not measured

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SightingSeafloorSea tempDeepest dive (modelled)
Aug 23, 201812 m——
Sep 4, 201865 m——
Sep 5, 201869 m——
Sep 5, 2018154 m——
Sep 6, 201873 m——
Sep 6, 201866 m——
Sep 6, 201887 m——
Sep 6, 2018129 m——
Sep 7, 201858 m——
Sep 8, 201871 m——
Sep 9, 2018123 m——
Sep 10, 2018153 m——
Sep 12, 2018211 m——
Sep 13, 2018146 m——
Sep 14, 2018107 m——
Sep 15, 201886 m——
Sep 19, 201863 m——
Sep 21, 201866 m——

Seafloor and sea temperature measured · ✳ dives modelled ·

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Deepest dive against the seafloor, per sighting

Seafloor · measured Deepest dive · modelled
Aug 23, 2018 — seafloor 12 m (measured), deepest dive — (modelled)Aug 23Sep 4, 2018 — seafloor 65 m (measured), deepest dive — (modelled)Sep 5, 2018 — seafloor 69 m (measured), deepest dive — (modelled)Sep 5, 2018 — seafloor 154 m (measured), deepest dive — (modelled)Sep 6, 2018 — seafloor 73 m (measured), deepest dive — (modelled)Sep 6Sep 6, 2018 — seafloor 66 m (measured), deepest dive — (modelled)Sep 6, 2018 — seafloor 87 m (measured), deepest dive — (modelled)Sep 6, 2018 — seafloor 129 m (measured), deepest dive — (modelled)Sep 7, 2018 — seafloor 58 m (measured), deepest dive — (modelled)Sep 7Sep 8, 2018 — seafloor 71 m (measured), deepest dive — (modelled)Sep 9, 2018 — seafloor 123 m (measured), deepest dive — (modelled)Sep 10, 2018 — seafloor 153 m (measured), deepest dive — (modelled)Sep 12, 2018 — seafloor 211 m (measured), deepest dive — (modelled)Sep 12Sep 13, 2018 — seafloor 146 m (measured), deepest dive — (modelled)Sep 14, 2018 — seafloor 107 m (measured), deepest dive — (modelled)Sep 15, 2018 — seafloor 86 m (measured), deepest dive — (modelled)Sep 19, 2018 — seafloor 63 m (measured), deepest dive — (modelled)Sep 19Sep 21, 2018 — seafloor 66 m (measured), deepest dive — (modelled)Sep 24, 2018 — seafloor 57 m (measured), deepest dive — (modelled)Sep 24, 2018 — seafloor 102 m (measured), deepest dive — (modelled)Sep 24, 2018 — seafloor 61 m (measured), deepest dive — (modelled)Sep 24Oct 16, 2018 — seafloor 165 m (measured), deepest dive — (modelled)

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
22
Sightings
54
Days first → last

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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 16, 2018

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

Across the residency · 22 sightings

measured
Seafloor depth
12 m – 211 m
Sea-surface temperature
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Distance from shore
2.0 km – 9.0 km

Sources: GEBCO seafloor grid · PacIOOS coastline distance

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Source records

This activity is assembled from 22 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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