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Monterey Bay

CRC-16458 – Residency

16th sighting in Monterey Bay
Fluke of CRC-16458
CRC-16458 Confirmed in the catalog @3001
Sep 17 – Oct 19, 2023 · Monterey Bay

Monterey Bay · Sep – Oct 2023

200 m
Deepest dive
6:06
Longest dive
86
Dives
Sightings
5
Days between first and last sighting
32
Deepest dive on record
200 m · this residency

Dive stats modelled within real depth limits — not measured

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SightingSeafloorSea tempDeepest dive (modelled)
Sep 17, 202378 m—61 m
Sep 18, 202367 m—36 m
Oct 12, 2023181 m—115 m
Oct 18, 2023390 m—200 m
Oct 19, 202391 m—56 m

Seafloor and sea temperature measured · ✳ dives modelled

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Deepest dive against the seafloor, per sighting

Seafloor · measured Deepest dive · modelled
Sep 17, 2023 — seafloor 78 m (measured), deepest dive 61 m (modelled)Sep 17Sep 18, 2023 — seafloor 67 m (measured), deepest dive 36 m (modelled)Sep 18Oct 12, 2023 — seafloor 181 m (measured), deepest dive 115 m (modelled)Oct 12Oct 18, 2023 — seafloor 390 m (measured), deepest dive 200 m (modelled)Oct 18Oct 19, 2023 — seafloor 91 m (measured), deepest dive 56 m (modelled)Oct 19

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

Dives

200 m
Deepest dive
6:06
Longest dive
86
Dives
27 m
Avg dive depth
5
Sightings
32
Days first → last

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Dive profile

modelled
0100200200 mstartdive sequence (illustrative)

Depth shaped by the seafloor limit here (390 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 · Oct 18, 2023

measured
Seafloor depth
390 m
Sea-surface temperature
—
Distance from shore
8.0 km

Across the residency · 5 sightings

measured
Seafloor depth
67 m – 390 m
Sea-surface temperature
—
Distance from shore
3.0 km – 13.0 km

Sources: GEBCO seafloor grid · PacIOOS coastline distance

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Source records

This activity is assembled from 5 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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