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Monterey Bay

Train Wreck – Residency

29th sighting in Monterey Bay
Fluke of Train Wreck
Train Wreck Confirmed in the catalog @251
Apr 30 – Aug 6, 2022 · Monterey Bay

Monterey Summer Stay

Found my rhythm in these familiar waters, surfacing when the feeling moved me.

86 m
Deepest dive
3:40
Longest dive
88
Dives
Sightings
6
Days between first and last sighting
98

Dive stats modelled within real depth limits — not measured

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SightingSeafloorSea tempDeepest dive (modelled)
Apr 30, 202264 m10.6°C53 m
May 13, 202252 m11.3°C48 m
May 31, 2022317 m11.6°C27 m
Jun 5, 202226 m13.5°C20 m
Jun 22, 202278 m11.8°C71 m
Aug 6, 202294 m17.2°C86 m

Seafloor and sea temperature measured · ✳ dives modelled

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Deepest dive against the seafloor, per sighting

Seafloor · measured Deepest dive · modelled
Apr 30, 2022 — seafloor 64 m (measured), deepest dive 53 m (modelled)Apr 30May 13, 2022 — seafloor 52 m (measured), deepest dive 48 m (modelled)May 13May 31, 2022 — seafloor 317 m (measured), deepest dive 27 m (modelled)May 31Jun 5, 2022 — seafloor 26 m (measured), deepest dive 20 m (modelled)Jun 5Jun 22, 2022 — seafloor 78 m (measured), deepest dive 71 m (modelled)Jun 22Aug 6, 2022 — seafloor 94 m (measured), deepest dive 86 m (modelled)Aug 6

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

Dives

86 m
Deepest dive
3:40
Longest dive
88
Dives
21 m
Avg dive depth
6
Sightings
98
Days first → last

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Dive profile

modelled
05010086 mstartdive sequence (illustrative)

Depth shaped by the seafloor limit here (94 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 6, 2022

measured
Seafloor depth
94 m
Sea-surface temperature
17.2°C
Distance from shore
37.0 km

Across the residency · 6 sightings

measured
Seafloor depth
26 m – 317 m
Sea-surface temperature
10.6°C – 17.2°C
Distance from shore
1.0 km – 37.0 km

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

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Source records

This activity is assembled from 6 catalogued encounters on Happywhale.

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