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Monterey Bay

Rip Curl – Residency

22nd sighting in Monterey Bay
Fluke of Rip Curl
Rip Curl Confirmed in the catalog @276
May 18 – Nov 12, 2018 · Monterey Bay

Monterey Bay · May – Nov 2018

146 m
Deepest dive
5:53
Longest dive
133
Dives
Sightings
13
Days between first and last sighting
178

Dive stats modelled within real depth limits — not measured

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SightingSeafloorSea tempDeepest dive (modelled)
May 18, 2018343 m12.9°C146 m
Aug 15, 201860 m15.4°C27 m
Aug 16, 201897 m15.5°C80 m
Aug 17, 201892 m15.6°C56 m
Aug 18, 201890 m15.5°C22 m
Sep 8, 201853 m15.4°C46 m
Sep 9, 201839 m15.1°C33 m
Sep 23, 201842 m12.6°C33 m
Sep 28, 201844 m14.5°C33 m
Oct 2, 201895 m15.0°C43 m
Oct 4, 201882 m16.3°C43 m
Oct 14, 201899 m15.6°C51 m
Nov 12, 2018151 m14.4°C30 m

Seafloor and sea temperature measured · ✳ dives modelled

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Deepest dive against the seafloor, per sighting

Seafloor · measured Deepest dive · modelled
May 18, 2018 — seafloor 343 m (measured), deepest dive 146 m (modelled)May 18Aug 15, 2018 — seafloor 60 m (measured), deepest dive 27 m (modelled)Aug 16, 2018 — seafloor 97 m (measured), deepest dive 80 m (modelled)Aug 17, 2018 — seafloor 92 m (measured), deepest dive 56 m (modelled)Aug 17Aug 18, 2018 — seafloor 90 m (measured), deepest dive 22 m (modelled)Sep 8, 2018 — seafloor 53 m (measured), deepest dive 46 m (modelled)Sep 9, 2018 — seafloor 39 m (measured), deepest dive 33 m (modelled)Sep 9Sep 23, 2018 — seafloor 42 m (measured), deepest dive 33 m (modelled)Sep 28, 2018 — seafloor 44 m (measured), deepest dive 33 m (modelled)Oct 2, 2018 — seafloor 95 m (measured), deepest dive 43 m (modelled)Oct 2Oct 4, 2018 — seafloor 82 m (measured), deepest dive 43 m (modelled)Oct 14, 2018 — seafloor 99 m (measured), deepest dive 51 m (modelled)Nov 12, 2018 — seafloor 151 m (measured), deepest dive 30 m (modelled)Nov 12

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

Dives

146 m
Deepest dive
5:53
Longest dive
133
Dives
21 m
Avg dive depth
13
Sightings
178
Days first → last

Dive metrics are modelled within real depth limits — not measured

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Dive profile

modelled
075150146 mstartdive sequence (illustrative)

Depth shaped by the seafloor limit here (343 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 · May 18, 2018

measured
Seafloor depth
343 m
Sea-surface temperature
12.9°C
Distance from shore
6.0 km

Across the residency · 13 sightings

measured
Seafloor depth
39 m – 343 m
Sea-surface temperature
12.6°C – 16.3°C
Distance from shore
2.0 km – 8.0 km

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

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Source records

This activity is assembled from 13 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.

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