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Monterey Bay

Nexus – Residency

35th sighting in Monterey Bay
Fluke of Nexus
Nexus Confirmed in the catalog @2554
May 11 – Aug 9, 2018 · Monterey Bay

Monterey Bay · May – Aug 2018

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Deepest dive
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Longest dive
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Dives
Sightings
6
Days between first and last sighting
90

Dive stats modelled within real depth limits — not measured

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SightingSeafloorSea tempDeepest dive (modelled)
May 11, 201872 m11.3°C—
May 12, 201818 m11.7°C—
May 15, 201821 m12.8°C—
May 16, 201850 m12.7°C—
Aug 7, 2018111 m12.4°C—
Aug 9, 2018124 m13.0°C—

Seafloor and sea temperature measured · ✳ dives modelled

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Deepest dive against the seafloor, per sighting

Seafloor · measured Deepest dive · modelled
May 11, 2018 — seafloor 72 m (measured), deepest dive — (modelled)May 11May 12, 2018 — seafloor 18 m (measured), deepest dive — (modelled)May 12May 15, 2018 — seafloor 21 m (measured), deepest dive — (modelled)May 15May 16, 2018 — seafloor 50 m (measured), deepest dive — (modelled)May 16Aug 7, 2018 — seafloor 111 m (measured), deepest dive — (modelled)Aug 7Aug 9, 2018 — seafloor 124 m (measured), deepest dive — (modelled)Aug 9

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
6
Sightings
90
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 9, 2018

measured
Seafloor depth
124 m
Sea-surface temperature
13.0°C
Distance from shore
3.0 km

Across the residency · 6 sightings

measured
Seafloor depth
18 m – 124 m
Sea-surface temperature
11.3°C – 13.0°C
Distance from shore
2.0 km – 3.0 km

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

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Source records

This activity is assembled from 6 catalogued encounters on Happywhale.

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