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Monterey Bay

Smile Lines – Residency

21st sighting in Monterey Bay
Fluke of Smile Lines
Smile Lines Confirmed in the catalog @22
Jul 16 – Oct 28, 2018 · Monterey Bay

Monterey Bay · Jul – Oct 2018

125 m
Deepest dive
4:19
Longest dive
59
Dives
Sightings
4
Days between first and last sighting
104

Dive stats modelled within real depth limits — not measured

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SightingSeafloorSea tempDeepest dive (modelled)
Jul 16, 201879 m14.9°C48 m
Jul 19, 2018303 m14.8°C125 m
Sep 5, 2018124 m15.9°C113 m
Oct 28, 2018115 m14.9°C51 m

Seafloor and sea temperature measured · ✳ dives modelled

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Deepest dive against the seafloor, per sighting

Seafloor · measured Deepest dive · modelled
Jul 16, 2018 — seafloor 79 m (measured), deepest dive 48 m (modelled)Jul 16Jul 19, 2018 — seafloor 303 m (measured), deepest dive 125 m (modelled)Jul 19Sep 5, 2018 — seafloor 124 m (measured), deepest dive 113 m (modelled)Sep 5Oct 28, 2018 — seafloor 115 m (measured), deepest dive 51 m (modelled)Oct 28

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

Dives

125 m
Deepest dive
4:19
Longest dive
59
Dives
26 m
Avg dive depth
4
Sightings
104
Days first → last

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Dive profile

modelled
075150125 mstartdive sequence (illustrative)

Depth shaped by the seafloor limit here (303 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 · Jul 19, 2018

measured
Seafloor depth
303 m
Sea-surface temperature
14.8°C
Distance from shore
6.0 km

Across the residency · 4 sightings

measured
Seafloor depth
79 m – 303 m
Sea-surface temperature
14.8°C – 15.9°C
Distance from shore
4.0 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 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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