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Monterey Bay

CRC-9038 – Residency

26th sighting in Monterey Bay
Fluke of CRC-9038
CRC-9038 Confirmed in the catalog @2506
Sep 20 – 29, 2023 · Monterey Bay

Monterey Bay · Sep 2023

168 m
Deepest dive
6:26
Longest dive
47
Dives
Sightings
4
Days between first and last sighting
9

Dive stats modelled within real depth limits — not measured

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SightingSeafloorSea tempDeepest dive (modelled)
Sep 20, 202380 m16.7°C68 m
Sep 21, 2023567 m16.6°C98 m
Sep 21, 2023399 m16.6°C168 m
Sep 29, 202365 m16.8°C40 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 20, 2023 — seafloor 80 m (measured), deepest dive 68 m (modelled)Sep 20Sep 21, 2023 — seafloor 567 m (measured), deepest dive 98 m (modelled)Sep 21Sep 21, 2023 — seafloor 399 m (measured), deepest dive 168 m (modelled)Sep 21Sep 29, 2023 — seafloor 65 m (measured), deepest dive 40 m (modelled)Sep 29

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

Dives

168 m
Deepest dive
6:26
Longest dive
47
Dives
29 m
Avg dive depth
4
Sightings
9
Days first → last

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Dive profile

modelled
0100200168 mstartdive sequence (illustrative)

Depth shaped by the seafloor limit here (399 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 21, 2023

measured
Seafloor depth
399 m
Sea-surface temperature
16.6°C
Distance from shore
9.0 km

Across the residency · 4 sightings

measured
Seafloor depth
65 m – 567 m
Sea-surface temperature
16.6°C – 16.8°C
Distance from shore
5.0 km – 16.0 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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