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Monterey Bay

Nexus – Residency

50th sighting in Monterey Bay
Fluke of Nexus
Nexus Confirmed in the catalog @2554
Aug 16, 2024 · Monterey Bay

Monterey Bay · Aug 2024

36 m
Deepest dive
1:49
Longest dive
8
Dives
Sightings
1
Days between first and last sighting
Same day

Dive stats modelled within real depth limits — not measured

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SightingSeafloorSea tempDeepest dive (modelled)
Aug 16, 202484 m14.5°C36 m

Seafloor and sea temperature measured · ✳ dives modelled

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Deepest dive against the seafloor, per sighting

Seafloor · measured Deepest dive · modelled
Aug 16, 2024 — seafloor 84 m (measured), deepest dive 36 m (modelled)Aug 16

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

Dives

36 m
Deepest dive
1:49
Longest dive
8
Dives
14 m
Avg dive depth
1
Sightings
Same day
Days first → last

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Dive profile

modelled
0255036 mstartdive sequence (illustrative)

Depth shaped by the seafloor limit here (84 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 16, 2024

measured
Seafloor depth
84 m
Sea-surface temperature
14.5°C
Distance from shore
13.0 km

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

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Source records

This activity is assembled from 1 catalogued encounter on Happywhale.

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