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Monterey Bay

Nexus – Residency

29th sighting in Monterey Bay
Fluke of Nexus
Nexus Confirmed in the catalog @2554
Jul 15 – Sep 24, 2017 · Monterey Bay

Monterey Bay · Jul – Sep 2017

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Deepest dive
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Longest dive
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Dives
Sightings
12
Days between first and last sighting
71

Dive stats modelled within real depth limits — not measured

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SightingSeafloorSea tempDeepest dive (modelled)
Jul 15, 201752 m12.9°C—
Jul 16, 201751 m12.8°C—
Jul 17, 201777 m12.9°C—
Jul 18, 201752 m12.8°C—
Aug 3, 2017127 m14.7°C—
Aug 6, 2017101 m16.0°C—
Aug 7, 2017134 m16.0°C—
Aug 12, 2017226 m14.6°C—
Aug 16, 2017117 m15.3°C—
Sep 18, 201741 m17.4°C—
Sep 22, 201755 m16.0°C—
Sep 24, 2017344 m15.9°C—

Seafloor and sea temperature measured · ✳ dives modelled

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Deepest dive against the seafloor, per sighting

Seafloor · measured Deepest dive · modelled
Jul 15, 2017 — seafloor 52 m (measured), deepest dive — (modelled)Jul 15Jul 16, 2017 — seafloor 51 m (measured), deepest dive — (modelled)Jul 16Jul 17, 2017 — seafloor 77 m (measured), deepest dive — (modelled)Jul 17Jul 18, 2017 — seafloor 52 m (measured), deepest dive — (modelled)Jul 18Aug 3, 2017 — seafloor 127 m (measured), deepest dive — (modelled)Aug 3Aug 6, 2017 — seafloor 101 m (measured), deepest dive — (modelled)Aug 6Aug 7, 2017 — seafloor 134 m (measured), deepest dive — (modelled)Aug 7Aug 12, 2017 — seafloor 226 m (measured), deepest dive — (modelled)Aug 12Aug 16, 2017 — seafloor 117 m (measured), deepest dive — (modelled)Aug 16Sep 18, 2017 — seafloor 41 m (measured), deepest dive — (modelled)Sep 18Sep 22, 2017 — seafloor 55 m (measured), deepest dive — (modelled)Sep 22Sep 24, 2017 — seafloor 344 m (measured), deepest dive — (modelled)Sep 24

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
12
Sightings
71
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 · Sep 24, 2017

measured
Seafloor depth
344 m
Sea-surface temperature
15.9°C
Distance from shore
11.0 km

Across the residency · 12 sightings

measured
Seafloor depth
41 m – 344 m
Sea-surface temperature
12.8°C – 17.4°C
Distance from shore
2.0 km – 11.0 km

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

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Source records

This activity is assembled from 12 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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