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Monterey Bay

Icing – Residency

48th sighting in Monterey Bay
Fluke of Icing
Icing Confirmed in the catalog @2405
Sep 22 – Nov 26, 2021 · Monterey Bay

Monterey Bay · Sep – Nov 2021

107 m
Deepest dive
4:37
Longest dive
106
Dives
Sightings
9
Days between first and last sighting
65

Dive stats modelled within real depth limits — not measured

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SightingSeafloorSea tempDeepest dive (modelled)
Sep 22, 2021112 m16.3°C23 m
Oct 17, 202193 m13.4°C74 m
Nov 18, 2021226 m13.9°C102 m
Nov 18, 2021142 m13.9°C86 m
Nov 22, 2021239 m14.5°C70 m
Nov 22, 2021274 m14.5°C47 m
Nov 23, 2021175 m14.0°C62 m
Nov 26, 2021264 m12.9°C22 m
Nov 26, 2021401 m12.9°C107 m

Seafloor and sea temperature measured · ✳ dives modelled

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Deepest dive against the seafloor, per sighting

Seafloor · measured Deepest dive · modelled
Sep 22, 2021 — seafloor 112 m (measured), deepest dive 23 m (modelled)Sep 22Oct 17, 2021 — seafloor 93 m (measured), deepest dive 74 m (modelled)Oct 17Nov 18, 2021 — seafloor 226 m (measured), deepest dive 102 m (modelled)Nov 18Nov 18, 2021 — seafloor 142 m (measured), deepest dive 86 m (modelled)Nov 18Nov 22, 2021 — seafloor 239 m (measured), deepest dive 70 m (modelled)Nov 22Nov 22, 2021 — seafloor 274 m (measured), deepest dive 47 m (modelled)Nov 22Nov 23, 2021 — seafloor 175 m (measured), deepest dive 62 m (modelled)Nov 23Nov 26, 2021 — seafloor 264 m (measured), deepest dive 22 m (modelled)Nov 26Nov 26, 2021 — seafloor 401 m (measured), deepest dive 107 m (modelled)Nov 26

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

Dives

107 m
Deepest dive
4:37
Longest dive
106
Dives
28 m
Avg dive depth
9
Sightings
65
Days first → last

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Dive profile

modelled
075150107 mstartdive sequence (illustrative)

Depth shaped by the seafloor limit here (401 m) and the published dive-behaviour distribution. Modelled, not measured.

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Deep

Depth, duration and recovery resolved into a single number for this session.

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Place

Where this happened · Nov 26, 2021

measured
Seafloor depth
401 m
Sea-surface temperature
12.9°C
Distance from shore
8.0 km

Across the residency · 9 sightings

measured
Seafloor depth
93 m – 401 m
Sea-surface temperature
12.9°C – 16.3°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 9 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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