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Monterey Bay

CRC-17087 – Residency

32nd sighting in Monterey Bay
Fluke of CRC-17087
CRC-17087 Confirmed in the catalog @24859
Sep 18 – Oct 22, 2023 · Monterey Bay

Monterey Bay · Sep – Oct 2023

84 m
Deepest dive
3:08
Longest dive
68
Dives
Sightings
4
Days between first and last sighting
34

Dive stats modelled within real depth limits — not measured

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SightingSeafloorSea tempDeepest dive (modelled)
Sep 18, 2023549 m16.6°C71 m
Sep 25, 2023115 m16.8°C84 m
Oct 12, 202376 m15.8°C68 m
Oct 22, 2023108 m16.6°C52 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 18, 2023 — seafloor 549 m (measured), deepest dive 71 m (modelled)Sep 18Sep 25, 2023 — seafloor 115 m (measured), deepest dive 84 m (modelled)Sep 25Oct 12, 2023 — seafloor 76 m (measured), deepest dive 68 m (modelled)Oct 12Oct 22, 2023 — seafloor 108 m (measured), deepest dive 52 m (modelled)Oct 22

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

Dives

84 m
Deepest dive
3:08
Longest dive
68
Dives
27 m
Avg dive depth
4
Sightings
34
Days first → last

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Dive profile

modelled
05010084 mstartdive sequence (illustrative)

Depth shaped by the seafloor limit here (115 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 · Sep 25, 2023

measured
Seafloor depth
115 m
Sea-surface temperature
16.8°C
Distance from shore
5.0 km

Across the residency · 4 sightings

measured
Seafloor depth
76 m – 549 m
Sea-surface temperature
15.8°C – 16.8°C
Distance from shore
5.0 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 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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