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Monterey Bay

Nexus – Residency

17th sighting in Monterey Bay
Fluke of Nexus
Nexus Confirmed in the catalog @2554
Apr 21 – Aug 8, 2015 · Monterey Bay

Monterey Bay · Apr – Aug 2015

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Deepest dive
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Longest dive
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Dives
Sightings
15
Days between first and last sighting
109

Dive stats modelled within real depth limits — not measured

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SightingSeafloorSea tempDeepest dive (modelled)
Apr 21, 2015254 m12.0°C—
Jul 13, 2015123 m17.1°C—
Jul 14, 201570 m17.3°C—
Jul 19, 2015112 m17.3°C—
Jul 20, 2015136 m17.0°C—
Jul 21, 201569 m16.3°C—
Jul 22, 2015162 m16.0°C—
Jul 24, 2015155 m16.4°C—
Jul 29, 2015146 m16.3°C—
Jul 30, 201593 m16.2°C—
Jul 31, 201584 m16.4°C—
Aug 1, 201561 m17.5°C—
Aug 5, 2015206 m17.6°C—
Aug 7, 2015157 m17.3°C—
Aug 8, 2015191 m17.0°C—

Seafloor and sea temperature measured · ✳ dives modelled

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Deepest dive against the seafloor, per sighting

Seafloor · measured Deepest dive · modelled
Apr 21, 2015 — seafloor 254 m (measured), deepest dive — (modelled)Apr 21Jul 13, 2015 — seafloor 123 m (measured), deepest dive — (modelled)Jul 14, 2015 — seafloor 70 m (measured), deepest dive — (modelled)Jul 19, 2015 — seafloor 112 m (measured), deepest dive — (modelled)Jul 19Jul 20, 2015 — seafloor 136 m (measured), deepest dive — (modelled)Jul 21, 2015 — seafloor 69 m (measured), deepest dive — (modelled)Jul 22, 2015 — seafloor 162 m (measured), deepest dive — (modelled)Jul 22Jul 24, 2015 — seafloor 155 m (measured), deepest dive — (modelled)Jul 29, 2015 — seafloor 146 m (measured), deepest dive — (modelled)Jul 30, 2015 — seafloor 93 m (measured), deepest dive — (modelled)Jul 30Jul 31, 2015 — seafloor 84 m (measured), deepest dive — (modelled)Aug 1, 2015 — seafloor 61 m (measured), deepest dive — (modelled)Aug 5, 2015 — seafloor 206 m (measured), deepest dive — (modelled)Aug 5Aug 7, 2015 — seafloor 157 m (measured), deepest dive — (modelled)Aug 8, 2015 — seafloor 191 m (measured), deepest dive — (modelled)

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

Dives

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Deepest dive
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Longest dive
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Dives
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Avg dive depth
15
Sightings
109
Days first → last

Dive metrics are modelled within real depth limits — not measured

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Dive profile

modelled
02550startdive sequence (illustrative)

Modelled from the published dive-behaviour distribution. 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 8, 2015

measured
Seafloor depth
191 m
Sea-surface temperature
17.0°C
Distance from shore
3.0 km

Across the residency · 15 sightings

measured
Seafloor depth
61 m – 254 m
Sea-surface temperature
12.0°C – 17.6°C
Distance from shore
2.0 km – 5.0 km

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

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Source records

This activity is assembled from 15 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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