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Monterey Bay

Icing – Residency

55th sighting in Monterey Bay
Fluke of Icing
Icing Confirmed in the catalog @2405
Oct 9 – 13, 2024 · Monterey Bay

Monterey Bay · Oct 2024

123 m
Deepest dive
5:01
Longest dive
70
Dives
Sightings
5
Days between first and last sighting
4

Dive stats modelled within real depth limits — not measured

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SightingSeafloorSea tempDeepest dive (modelled)
Oct 9, 2024233 m16.5°C123 m
Oct 11, 2024235 m15.4°C104 m
Oct 12, 2024358 m15.4°C56 m
Oct 12, 2024248 m15.4°C114 m
Oct 13, 2024114 m15.4°C42 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 9, 2024 — seafloor 233 m (measured), deepest dive 123 m (modelled)Oct 9Oct 11, 2024 — seafloor 235 m (measured), deepest dive 104 m (modelled)Oct 11Oct 12, 2024 — seafloor 358 m (measured), deepest dive 56 m (modelled)Oct 12Oct 12, 2024 — seafloor 248 m (measured), deepest dive 114 m (modelled)Oct 12Oct 13, 2024 — seafloor 114 m (measured), deepest dive 42 m (modelled)Oct 13

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

Dives

123 m
Deepest dive
5:01
Longest dive
70
Dives
28 m
Avg dive depth
5
Sightings
4
Days first → last

Dive metrics are modelled within real depth limits — not measured

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Dive profile

modelled
075150123 mstartdive sequence (illustrative)

Depth shaped by the seafloor limit here (233 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 9, 2024

measured
Seafloor depth
233 m
Sea-surface temperature
16.5°C
Distance from shore
3.0 km

Across the residency · 5 sightings

measured
Seafloor depth
114 m – 358 m
Sea-surface temperature
15.4°C – 16.5°C
Distance from shore
3.0 km – 13.0 km

Sources: GEBCO seafloor grid · NASA JPL MUR sea temperature · PacIOOS coastline distance

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Source records

This activity is assembled from 5 catalogued encounters on Happywhale.

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