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Monterey Bay

Rip Curl – Residency

132nd sighting in Monterey Bay
Fluke of Rip Curl
Rip Curl Confirmed in the catalog @276
Mar 25 – Apr 21, 2022 · Monterey Bay

Home Sweet Monterey

Keep finding myself drawn back to these familiar waters like an old friend.

383 m
Deepest dive
15:37
Longest dive
177
Dives
Sightings
12
Days between first and last sighting
27
Deepest dive on record
383 m · this residency

Dive stats modelled within real depth limits — not measured

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SightingSeafloorSea tempDeepest dive (modelled)
Mar 25, 2022436 m11.9°C164 m
Apr 3, 2022567 m11.0°C216 m
Apr 3, 2022567 m11.0°C173 m
Apr 3, 2022567 m11.0°C383 m
Apr 3, 2022567 m11.0°C102 m
Apr 3, 2022567 m11.0°C32 m
Apr 7, 202295 m11.7°C29 m
Apr 8, 2022229 m13.0°C169 m
Apr 12, 2022567 m10.2°C183 m
Apr 14, 202227 m—18 m
Apr 16, 202220 m10.4°C18 m
Apr 21, 202278 m11.2°C38 m

Seafloor and sea temperature measured · ✳ dives modelled

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Deepest dive against the seafloor, per sighting

Seafloor · measured Deepest dive · modelled
Mar 25, 2022 — seafloor 436 m (measured), deepest dive 164 m (modelled)Mar 25Apr 3, 2022 — seafloor 567 m (measured), deepest dive 216 m (modelled)Apr 3Apr 3, 2022 — seafloor 567 m (measured), deepest dive 173 m (modelled)Apr 3Apr 3, 2022 — seafloor 567 m (measured), deepest dive 383 m (modelled)Apr 3Apr 3, 2022 — seafloor 567 m (measured), deepest dive 102 m (modelled)Apr 3Apr 3, 2022 — seafloor 567 m (measured), deepest dive 32 m (modelled)Apr 3Apr 7, 2022 — seafloor 95 m (measured), deepest dive 29 m (modelled)Apr 7Apr 8, 2022 — seafloor 229 m (measured), deepest dive 169 m (modelled)Apr 8Apr 12, 2022 — seafloor 567 m (measured), deepest dive 183 m (modelled)Apr 12Apr 14, 2022 — seafloor 27 m (measured), deepest dive 18 m (modelled)Apr 14Apr 16, 2022 — seafloor 20 m (measured), deepest dive 18 m (modelled)Apr 16Apr 21, 2022 — seafloor 78 m (measured), deepest dive 38 m (modelled)Apr 21

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

Dives

383 m
Deepest dive
15:37
Longest dive
177
Dives
30 m
Avg dive depth
12
Sightings
27
Days first → last

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Dive profile

modelled
0200400383 mstartdive sequence (illustrative)

Depth shaped by the seafloor limit here (567 m) and the published dive-behaviour distribution. Modelled, not measured.

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Place

Where this happened · Apr 3, 2022

measured
Seafloor depth
567 m
Sea-surface temperature
11.0°C
Distance from shore
16.0 km

Across the residency · 12 sightings

measured
Seafloor depth
20 m – 567 m
Sea-surface temperature
10.2°C – 13.0°C
Distance from shore
1.0 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 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.

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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