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Monterey Bay

CRC-17641 – Residency

20th sighting in Monterey Bay
Fluke of CRC-17641
CRC-17641 Confirmed in the catalog @24688
Jul 29 – Aug 19, 2019 · Monterey Bay

Monterey Bay · Jul – Aug 2019

89 m
Deepest dive
3:13
Longest dive
16
Dives
Sightings
13
Days between first and last sighting
21

Dive stats modelled within real depth limits — not measured

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SightingSeafloorSea tempDeepest dive (modelled)
Jul 29, 201978 m14.7°C—
Jul 30, 201994 m14.5°C—
Jul 31, 201987 m14.6°C—
Jul 31, 201978 m14.6°C—
Aug 1, 201994 m14.7°C—
Aug 2, 2019285 m14.6°C—
Aug 4, 201956 m14.3°C—
Aug 5, 201955 m13.9°C—
Aug 7, 201957 m13.0°C—
Aug 8, 201979 m13.2°C—
Aug 9, 201949 m13.0°C21 m
Aug 11, 201956 m13.7°C42 m
Aug 19, 2019150 m16.1°C89 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 29, 2019 — seafloor 78 m (measured), deepest dive — (modelled)Jul 29Jul 30, 2019 — seafloor 94 m (measured), deepest dive — (modelled)Jul 31, 2019 — seafloor 87 m (measured), deepest dive — (modelled)Jul 31, 2019 — seafloor 78 m (measured), deepest dive — (modelled)Jul 31Aug 1, 2019 — seafloor 94 m (measured), deepest dive — (modelled)Aug 2, 2019 — seafloor 285 m (measured), deepest dive — (modelled)Aug 4, 2019 — seafloor 56 m (measured), deepest dive — (modelled)Aug 4Aug 5, 2019 — seafloor 55 m (measured), deepest dive — (modelled)Aug 7, 2019 — seafloor 57 m (measured), deepest dive — (modelled)Aug 8, 2019 — seafloor 79 m (measured), deepest dive — (modelled)Aug 8Aug 9, 2019 — seafloor 49 m (measured), deepest dive 21 m (modelled)Aug 11, 2019 — seafloor 56 m (measured), deepest dive 42 m (modelled)Aug 19, 2019 — seafloor 150 m (measured), deepest dive 89 m (modelled)Aug 19

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

Dives

89 m
Deepest dive
3:13
Longest dive
16
Dives
33 m
Avg dive depth
13
Sightings
21
Days first → last

Dive metrics are modelled within real depth limits — not measured

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Dive profile

modelled
05010089 mstartdive sequence (illustrative)

Depth shaped by the seafloor limit here (150 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 · Aug 19, 2019

measured
Seafloor depth
150 m
Sea-surface temperature
16.1°C
Distance from shore
2.0 km

Across the residency · 13 sightings

measured
Seafloor depth
49 m – 285 m
Sea-surface temperature
13.0°C – 16.1°C
Distance from shore
1.0 km – 12.0 km

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

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Source records

This activity is assembled from 13 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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