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Monterey Bay

Nexus – Residency

41st sighting in Monterey Bay
Fluke of Nexus
Nexus Confirmed in the catalog @2554
May 30 – Jun 3, 2021 · Monterey Bay

Monterey Bay · May – Jun 2021

131 m
Deepest dive
3:38
Longest dive
27
Dives
Sightings
4
Days between first and last sighting
4

Dive stats modelled within real depth limits — not measured

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SightingSeafloorSea tempDeepest dive (modelled)
May 30, 202162 m13.2°C19 m
May 30, 202157 m13.2°C47 m
Jun 3, 2021567 m13.9°C131 m
Jun 3, 202163 m13.9°C50 m

Seafloor and sea temperature measured · ✳ dives modelled

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Deepest dive against the seafloor, per sighting

Seafloor · measured Deepest dive · modelled
May 30, 2021 — seafloor 62 m (measured), deepest dive 19 m (modelled)May 30May 30, 2021 — seafloor 57 m (measured), deepest dive 47 m (modelled)May 30Jun 3, 2021 — seafloor 567 m (measured), deepest dive 131 m (modelled)Jun 3Jun 3, 2021 — seafloor 63 m (measured), deepest dive 50 m (modelled)Jun 3

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

Dives

131 m
Deepest dive
3:38
Longest dive
27
Dives
25 m
Avg dive depth
4
Sightings
4
Days first → last

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Dive profile

modelled
075150131 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 · Jun 3, 2021

measured
Seafloor depth
567 m
Sea-surface temperature
13.9°C
Distance from shore
16.0 km

Across the residency · 4 sightings

measured
Seafloor depth
57 m – 567 m
Sea-surface temperature
13.2°C – 13.9°C
Distance from shore
3.0 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.

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