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Monterey Bay

Ring – Residency

4th sighting in Monterey Bay
Fluke of Ring
Ring Confirmed in the catalog @2551
Sep 1 – Nov 1, 2024 · Monterey Bay

Monterey Bay · Sep – Nov 2024

190 m
Deepest dive
5:59
Longest dive
58
Dives
Sightings
4
Days between first and last sighting
61

Dive stats modelled within real depth limits — not measured

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SightingSeafloorSea tempDeepest dive (modelled)
Sep 1, 2024567 m—167 m
Oct 2, 2024494 m—190 m
Oct 2, 202434 m—30 m
Nov 1, 2024135 m—37 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 1, 2024 — seafloor 567 m (measured), deepest dive 167 m (modelled)Sep 1Oct 2, 2024 — seafloor 494 m (measured), deepest dive 190 m (modelled)Oct 2Oct 2, 2024 — seafloor 34 m (measured), deepest dive 30 m (modelled)Oct 2Nov 1, 2024 — seafloor 135 m (measured), deepest dive 37 m (modelled)Nov 1

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

Dives

190 m
Deepest dive
5:59
Longest dive
58
Dives
29 m
Avg dive depth
4
Sightings
61
Days first → last

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Dive profile

modelled
0100200190 mstartdive sequence (illustrative)

Depth shaped by the seafloor limit here (494 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 2, 2024

measured
Seafloor depth
494 m
Sea-surface temperature
—
Distance from shore
9.0 km

Across the residency · 4 sightings

measured
Seafloor depth
34 m – 567 m
Sea-surface temperature
—
Distance from shore
8.0 km – 16.0 km

Sources: GEBCO seafloor grid · 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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