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Monterey Bay

Chin Up – Residency

63rd sighting in Monterey Bay
Fluke of Chin Up
Chin Up Confirmed in the catalog @2547
Jun 29, 2024 – Jan 6, 2025 · Monterey Bay

Monterey Bay · Jun 2024 – Jan 2025

106 m
Deepest dive
4:17
Longest dive
59
Dives
Sightings
5
Days between first and last sighting
191

Dive stats modelled within real depth limits — not measured

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SightingSeafloorSea tempDeepest dive (modelled)
Jun 29, 202482 m14.3°C36 m
Sep 13, 2024256 m15.7°C77 m
Sep 17, 202471 m15.0°C46 m
Nov 29, 2024567 m12.9°C106 m
Jan 6, 202591 m13.1°C38 m

Seafloor and sea temperature measured · ✳ dives modelled

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Deepest dive against the seafloor, per sighting

Seafloor · measured Deepest dive · modelled
Jun 29, 2024 — seafloor 82 m (measured), deepest dive 36 m (modelled)Jun 29Sep 13, 2024 — seafloor 256 m (measured), deepest dive 77 m (modelled)Sep 13Sep 17, 2024 — seafloor 71 m (measured), deepest dive 46 m (modelled)Sep 17Nov 29, 2024 — seafloor 567 m (measured), deepest dive 106 m (modelled)Nov 29Jan 6, 2025 — seafloor 91 m (measured), deepest dive 38 m (modelled)Jan 6

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

Dives

106 m
Deepest dive
4:17
Longest dive
59
Dives
25 m
Avg dive depth
5
Sightings
191
Days first → last

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Dive profile

modelled
075150106 mstartdive sequence (illustrative)

Depth shaped by the seafloor limit here (567 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 · Nov 29, 2024

measured
Seafloor depth
567 m
Sea-surface temperature
12.9°C
Distance from shore
16.0 km

Across the residency · 5 sightings

measured
Seafloor depth
71 m – 567 m
Sea-surface temperature
12.9°C – 15.7°C
Distance from shore
4.0 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 5 catalogued encounters on Happywhale.

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