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Monterey Bay

Rip Curl – Residency

138th sighting in Monterey Bay
Fluke of Rip Curl
Rip Curl Confirmed in the catalog @276
Aug 9 – Oct 7, 2022 · Monterey Bay

Summer's End in the Bay

Two months of perfect feeding, same sweet waters calling me back again and again.

267 m
Deepest dive
8:55
Longest dive
83
Dives
Sightings
6
Days between first and last sighting
59

Dive stats modelled within real depth limits — not measured

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SightingSeafloorSea tempDeepest dive (modelled)
Aug 9, 2022249 m16.3°C94 m
Aug 11, 202276 m16.7°C50 m
Aug 25, 2022567 m14.4°C267 m
Aug 27, 20221,347 m14.5°C198 m
Oct 6, 2022567 m16.8°C122 m
Oct 7, 2022567 m16.0°C50 m

Seafloor and sea temperature measured · ✳ dives modelled

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Deepest dive against the seafloor, per sighting

Seafloor · measured Deepest dive · modelled
Aug 9, 2022 — seafloor 249 m (measured), deepest dive 94 m (modelled)Aug 9Aug 11, 2022 — seafloor 76 m (measured), deepest dive 50 m (modelled)Aug 11Aug 25, 2022 — seafloor 567 m (measured), deepest dive 267 m (modelled)Aug 25Aug 27, 2022 — seafloor 1,347 m (measured), deepest dive 198 m (modelled)Aug 27Oct 6, 2022 — seafloor 567 m (measured), deepest dive 122 m (modelled)Oct 6Oct 7, 2022 — seafloor 567 m (measured), deepest dive 50 m (modelled)Oct 7

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

Dives

267 m
Deepest dive
8:55
Longest dive
83
Dives
32 m
Avg dive depth
6
Sightings
59
Days first → last

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Dive profile

modelled
0150300267 mstartdive sequence (illustrative)

Depth shaped by the seafloor limit here (567 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 25, 2022

measured
Seafloor depth
567 m
Sea-surface temperature
14.4°C
Distance from shore
16.0 km

Across the residency · 6 sightings

measured
Seafloor depth
76 m – 1,347 m
Sea-surface temperature
14.4°C – 16.8°C
Distance from shore
11.0 km – 17.0 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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