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Monterey Bay

Smile Lines – Residency

32nd sighting in Monterey Bay
Fluke of Smile Lines
Smile Lines Confirmed in the catalog @22
Oct 6 – 19, 2021 · Monterey Bay

Monterey Bay · Oct 2021

152 m
Deepest dive
7:10
Longest dive
44
Dives
Sightings
4
Days between first and last sighting
13

Dive stats modelled within real depth limits — not measured

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SightingSeafloorSea tempDeepest dive (modelled)
Oct 6, 202152 m15.5°C44 m
Oct 16, 2021100 m13.8°C90 m
Oct 18, 202160 m13.2°C51 m
Oct 19, 2021337 m13.1°C152 m

Seafloor and sea temperature measured · ✳ dives modelled

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Deepest dive against the seafloor, per sighting

Seafloor · measured Deepest dive · modelled
Oct 6, 2021 — seafloor 52 m (measured), deepest dive 44 m (modelled)Oct 6Oct 16, 2021 — seafloor 100 m (measured), deepest dive 90 m (modelled)Oct 16Oct 18, 2021 — seafloor 60 m (measured), deepest dive 51 m (modelled)Oct 18Oct 19, 2021 — seafloor 337 m (measured), deepest dive 152 m (modelled)Oct 19

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

Dives

152 m
Deepest dive
7:10
Longest dive
44
Dives
31 m
Avg dive depth
4
Sightings
13
Days first → last

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Dive profile

modelled
0100200152 mstartdive sequence (illustrative)

Depth shaped by the seafloor limit here (337 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 · Oct 19, 2021

measured
Seafloor depth
337 m
Sea-surface temperature
13.1°C
Distance from shore
14.0 km

Across the residency · 4 sightings

measured
Seafloor depth
52 m – 337 m
Sea-surface temperature
13.1°C – 15.5°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 4 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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