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Monterey Bay

Pappalardo – Residency

4th sighting in Monterey Bay
Fluke of Pappalardo
Pappalardo Confirmed in the catalog @24116
Nov 8 – 29, 2024 · Monterey Bay

Monterey Bay · Nov 2024

79 m
Deepest dive
3:06
Longest dive
53
Dives
Sightings
4
Days between first and last sighting
21
Deepest dive on record
79 m · this residency

Dive stats modelled within real depth limits — not measured

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SightingSeafloorSea tempDeepest dive (modelled)
Nov 8, 2024174 m—79 m
Nov 26, 202490 m—62 m
Nov 28, 202487 m—29 m
Nov 29, 2024567 m—29 m

Seafloor and sea temperature measured · ✳ dives modelled

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Deepest dive against the seafloor, per sighting

Seafloor · measured Deepest dive · modelled
Nov 8, 2024 — seafloor 174 m (measured), deepest dive 79 m (modelled)Nov 8Nov 26, 2024 — seafloor 90 m (measured), deepest dive 62 m (modelled)Nov 26Nov 28, 2024 — seafloor 87 m (measured), deepest dive 29 m (modelled)Nov 28Nov 29, 2024 — seafloor 567 m (measured), deepest dive 29 m (modelled)Nov 29

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

Dives

79 m
Deepest dive
3:06
Longest dive
53
Dives
25 m
Avg dive depth
4
Sightings
21
Days first → last

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Dive profile

modelled
05010079 mstartdive sequence (illustrative)

Depth shaped by the seafloor limit here (174 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 · Nov 8, 2024

measured
Seafloor depth
174 m
Sea-surface temperature
—
Distance from shore
10.0 km

Across the residency · 4 sightings

measured
Seafloor depth
87 m – 567 m
Sea-surface temperature
—
Distance from shore
4.0 km – 16.0 km

Sources: GEBCO seafloor grid · 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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