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Monterey Bay

Aurora – Residency

62nd sighting in Monterey Bay
Fluke of Aurora
Aurora Confirmed in the catalog @264
Jun 13 – Nov 14, 2020 · Monterey Bay

Monterey Bay · Jun – Nov 2020

475 m
Deepest dive
13:45
Longest dive
96
Dives
Sightings
9
Days between first and last sighting
154
Deepest dive on record
475 m · this residency

Dive stats modelled within real depth limits — not measured

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SightingSeafloorSea tempDeepest dive (modelled)
Jun 13, 2020294 m12.7°C127 m
Jun 27, 202024 m15.1°C20 m
Jul 14, 202059 m13.8°C40 m
Aug 18, 20201,359 m16.8°C475 m
Oct 8, 2020130 m15.7°C57 m
Oct 12, 2020123 m15.0°C82 m
Oct 13, 2020498 m15.2°C220 m
Nov 13, 2020356 m12.5°C58 m
Nov 14, 2020391 m12.7°C72 m

Seafloor and sea temperature measured · ✳ dives modelled

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Deepest dive against the seafloor, per sighting

Seafloor · measured Deepest dive · modelled
Jun 13, 2020 — seafloor 294 m (measured), deepest dive 127 m (modelled)Jun 13Jun 27, 2020 — seafloor 24 m (measured), deepest dive 20 m (modelled)Jun 27Jul 14, 2020 — seafloor 59 m (measured), deepest dive 40 m (modelled)Jul 14Aug 18, 2020 — seafloor 1,359 m (measured), deepest dive 475 m (modelled)Aug 18Oct 8, 2020 — seafloor 130 m (measured), deepest dive 57 m (modelled)Oct 8Oct 12, 2020 — seafloor 123 m (measured), deepest dive 82 m (modelled)Oct 12Oct 13, 2020 — seafloor 498 m (measured), deepest dive 220 m (modelled)Oct 13Nov 13, 2020 — seafloor 356 m (measured), deepest dive 58 m (modelled)Nov 13Nov 14, 2020 — seafloor 391 m (measured), deepest dive 72 m (modelled)Nov 14

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

Dives

475 m
Deepest dive
13:45
Longest dive
96
Dives
30 m
Avg dive depth
9
Sightings
154
Days first → last

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Dive profile

modelled
0250500475 mstartdive sequence (illustrative)

Depth shaped by the seafloor limit here (1,359 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 · Aug 18, 2020

measured
Seafloor depth
1,359 m
Sea-surface temperature
16.8°C
Distance from shore
18.0 km

Across the residency · 9 sightings

measured
Seafloor depth
24 m – 1,359 m
Sea-surface temperature
12.5°C – 16.8°C
Distance from shore
2.0 km – 18.0 km

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

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Source records

This activity is assembled from 9 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.

The photographs and fluke identifications behind every sighting are the work of the contributing observers — the citizen scientists, naturalists and operators who logged them, each named in the underlying GBIF occurrence record. Every activity links out to its source encounters on Happywhale. Basemaps © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL).

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