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Monterey Bay

Rip Curl – Residency

65th sighting in Monterey Bay
Fluke of Rip Curl
Rip Curl Confirmed in the catalog @276
Aug 10 – Nov 8, 2019 · Monterey Bay

Monterey Bay · Aug – Nov 2019

268 m
Deepest dive
11:20
Longest dive
376
Dives
Sightings
30
Days between first and last sighting
90

Dive stats modelled within real depth limits — not measured

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SightingSeafloorSea tempDeepest dive (modelled)
Aug 10, 201981 m13.3°C60 m
Aug 11, 201956 m13.7°C39 m
Aug 12, 2019350 m14.0°C103 m
Aug 13, 201963 m13.8°C57 m
Aug 14, 201964 m14.3°C40 m
Aug 16, 201964 m14.8°C53 m
Aug 17, 201981 m15.0°C25 m
Aug 25, 201955 m15.6°C41 m
Aug 26, 201993 m15.7°C61 m
Aug 28, 201996 m16.0°C49 m
Aug 29, 201979 m16.0°C70 m
Aug 30, 201998 m16.2°C52 m
Aug 31, 2019562 m16.2°C240 m
Sep 1, 2019114 m15.9°C60 m
Sep 3, 201986 m15.6°C19 m
Sep 5, 201991 m15.5°C63 m
Sep 10, 2019147 m15.8°C55 m
Sep 11, 201972 m15.4°C31 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 10, 2019 — seafloor 81 m (measured), deepest dive 60 m (modelled)Aug 10Aug 11, 2019 — seafloor 56 m (measured), deepest dive 39 m (modelled)Aug 12, 2019 — seafloor 350 m (measured), deepest dive 103 m (modelled)Aug 13, 2019 — seafloor 63 m (measured), deepest dive 57 m (modelled)Aug 14, 2019 — seafloor 64 m (measured), deepest dive 40 m (modelled)Aug 16, 2019 — seafloor 64 m (measured), deepest dive 53 m (modelled)Aug 16Aug 17, 2019 — seafloor 81 m (measured), deepest dive 25 m (modelled)Aug 25, 2019 — seafloor 55 m (measured), deepest dive 41 m (modelled)Aug 26, 2019 — seafloor 93 m (measured), deepest dive 61 m (modelled)Aug 28, 2019 — seafloor 96 m (measured), deepest dive 49 m (modelled)Aug 29, 2019 — seafloor 79 m (measured), deepest dive 70 m (modelled)Aug 29Aug 30, 2019 — seafloor 98 m (measured), deepest dive 52 m (modelled)Aug 31, 2019 — seafloor 562 m (measured), deepest dive 240 m (modelled)Sep 1, 2019 — seafloor 114 m (measured), deepest dive 60 m (modelled)Sep 3, 2019 — seafloor 86 m (measured), deepest dive 19 m (modelled)Sep 5, 2019 — seafloor 91 m (measured), deepest dive 63 m (modelled)Sep 5Sep 10, 2019 — seafloor 147 m (measured), deepest dive 55 m (modelled)Sep 11, 2019 — seafloor 72 m (measured), deepest dive 31 m (modelled)Sep 12, 2019 — seafloor 5 m (measured), deepest dive 5 m (modelled)Sep 15, 2019 — seafloor 91 m (measured), deepest dive 28 m (modelled)Sep 16, 2019 — seafloor 55 m (measured), deepest dive 50 m (modelled)Sep 16Sep 17, 2019 — seafloor 77 m (measured), deepest dive 22 m (modelled)Sep 24, 2019 — seafloor 66 m (measured), deepest dive 40 m (modelled)Sep 25, 2019 — seafloor 328 m (measured), deepest dive 268 m (modelled)Sep 27, 2019 — seafloor 64 m (measured), deepest dive 54 m (modelled)Oct 8, 2019 — seafloor 440 m (measured), deepest dive 172 m (modelled)Oct 8Oct 10, 2019 — seafloor 440 m (measured), deepest dive 25 m (modelled)Oct 21, 2019 — seafloor 76 m (measured), deepest dive 59 m (modelled)Nov 7, 2019 — seafloor 40 m (measured), deepest dive 32 m (modelled)Nov 8, 2019 — seafloor 282 m (measured), deepest dive 45 m (modelled)

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

Dives

268 m
Deepest dive
11:20
Longest dive
376
Dives
23 m
Avg dive depth
30
Sightings
90
Days first → last

Dive metrics are modelled within real depth limits — not measured

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Dive profile

modelled
0150300268 mstartdive sequence (illustrative)

Depth shaped by the seafloor limit here (328 m) and the published dive-behaviour distribution. Modelled, not measured.

Deep Effort Score

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Place

Where this happened · Sep 25, 2019

measured
Seafloor depth
328 m
Sea-surface temperature
16.2°C
Distance from shore
11.0 km

Across the residency · 30 sightings

measured
Seafloor depth
5 m – 562 m
Sea-surface temperature
13.3°C – 16.5°C
Distance from shore
3.0 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 30 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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