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Monterey Bay

Aurora – Residency

16th sighting in Monterey Bay
Fluke of Aurora
Aurora Confirmed in the catalog @264
Aug 3 – Nov 25, 2017 · Monterey Bay

Monterey Bay · Aug – Nov 2017

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Deepest dive
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Longest dive
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Dives
Sightings
8
Days between first and last sighting
114

Dive stats modelled within real depth limits — not measured

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SightingSeafloorSea tempDeepest dive (modelled)
Aug 3, 201791 m14.7°C—
Sep 23, 2017567 m15.5°C—
Sep 24, 2017398 m15.9°C—
Oct 6, 2017214 m13.6°C—
Oct 19, 201773 m13.6°C—
Oct 21, 2017567 m13.6°C—
Oct 22, 2017170 m13.8°C—
Nov 25, 2017111 m15.8°C—

Seafloor and sea temperature measured · ✳ dives modelled

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Deepest dive against the seafloor, per sighting

Seafloor · measured Deepest dive · modelled
Aug 3, 2017 — seafloor 91 m (measured), deepest dive — (modelled)Aug 3Sep 23, 2017 — seafloor 567 m (measured), deepest dive — (modelled)Sep 23Sep 24, 2017 — seafloor 398 m (measured), deepest dive — (modelled)Sep 24Oct 6, 2017 — seafloor 214 m (measured), deepest dive — (modelled)Oct 6Oct 19, 2017 — seafloor 73 m (measured), deepest dive — (modelled)Oct 19Oct 21, 2017 — seafloor 567 m (measured), deepest dive — (modelled)Oct 21Oct 22, 2017 — seafloor 170 m (measured), deepest dive — (modelled)Oct 22Nov 25, 2017 — seafloor 111 m (measured), deepest dive — (modelled)Nov 25

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
8
Sightings
114
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 · Nov 25, 2017

measured
Seafloor depth
111 m
Sea-surface temperature
15.8°C
Distance from shore
8.0 km

Across the residency · 8 sightings

measured
Seafloor depth
73 m – 567 m
Sea-surface temperature
13.6°C – 15.9°C
Distance from shore
2.0 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 8 catalogued encounters on Happywhale.

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