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Monterey Bay

Train Wreck – Residency

33rd sighting in Monterey Bay
Fluke of Train Wreck
Train Wreck Confirmed in the catalog @251
Oct 16 – 30, 2023 · Monterey Bay

October Returns

Same deep waters calling me back, like they always do.

119 m
Deepest dive
5:14
Longest dive
65
Dives
Sightings
3
Days between first and last sighting
14

Dive stats modelled within real depth limits — not measured

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SightingSeafloorSea tempDeepest dive (modelled)
Oct 16, 2023390 m15.9°C119 m
Oct 22, 202384 m16.1°C76 m
Oct 30, 2023260 m14.8°C63 m

Seafloor and sea temperature measured · ✳ dives modelled

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Deepest dive against the seafloor, per sighting

Seafloor · measured Deepest dive · modelled
Oct 16, 2023 — seafloor 390 m (measured), deepest dive 119 m (modelled)Oct 16Oct 22, 2023 — seafloor 84 m (measured), deepest dive 76 m (modelled)Oct 22Oct 30, 2023 — seafloor 260 m (measured), deepest dive 63 m (modelled)Oct 30

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

Dives

119 m
Deepest dive
5:14
Longest dive
65
Dives
27 m
Avg dive depth
3
Sightings
14
Days first → last

Dive metrics are modelled within real depth limits — not measured

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Dive profile

modelled
075150119 mstartdive sequence (illustrative)

Depth shaped by the seafloor limit here (390 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 · Oct 16, 2023

measured
Seafloor depth
390 m
Sea-surface temperature
15.9°C
Distance from shore
8.0 km

Across the residency · 3 sightings

measured
Seafloor depth
84 m – 390 m
Sea-surface temperature
14.8°C – 16.1°C
Distance from shore
4.0 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 3 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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