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Monterey Bay

Silky – Residency

21st sighting in Monterey Bay
Fluke of Silky
Silky Confirmed in the catalog @260
Jul 11 – 25, 2020 · Monterey Bay

Monterey Bay · Jul 2020

108 m
Deepest dive
5:17
Longest dive
98
Dives
Sightings
7
Days between first and last sighting
14

Dive stats modelled within real depth limits — not measured

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SightingSeafloorSea tempDeepest dive (modelled)
Jul 11, 2020109 m12.2°C88 m
Jul 12, 2020567 m13.7°C91 m
Jul 14, 202071 m13.8°C65 m
Jul 15, 202066 m14.1°C52 m
Jul 16, 2020233 m14.2°C41 m
Jul 17, 2020567 m15.0°C75 m
Jul 25, 2020119 m16.6°C108 m

Seafloor and sea temperature measured · ✳ dives modelled

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Deepest dive against the seafloor, per sighting

Seafloor · measured Deepest dive · modelled
Jul 11, 2020 — seafloor 109 m (measured), deepest dive 88 m (modelled)Jul 11Jul 12, 2020 — seafloor 567 m (measured), deepest dive 91 m (modelled)Jul 12Jul 14, 2020 — seafloor 71 m (measured), deepest dive 65 m (modelled)Jul 14Jul 15, 2020 — seafloor 66 m (measured), deepest dive 52 m (modelled)Jul 15Jul 16, 2020 — seafloor 233 m (measured), deepest dive 41 m (modelled)Jul 16Jul 17, 2020 — seafloor 567 m (measured), deepest dive 75 m (modelled)Jul 17Jul 25, 2020 — seafloor 119 m (measured), deepest dive 108 m (modelled)Jul 25

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

Dives

108 m
Deepest dive
5:17
Longest dive
98
Dives
27 m
Avg dive depth
7
Sightings
14
Days first → last

Dive metrics are modelled within real depth limits — not measured

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Dive profile

modelled
075150108 mstartdive sequence (illustrative)

Depth shaped by the seafloor limit here (119 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 · Jul 25, 2020

measured
Seafloor depth
119 m
Sea-surface temperature
16.6°C
Distance from shore
6.0 km

Across the residency · 7 sightings

measured
Seafloor depth
66 m – 567 m
Sea-surface temperature
12.2°C – 16.6°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 7 catalogued encounters on Happywhale.

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