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Monterey Bay

Bread Knife – Residency

45th sighting in Monterey Bay
Fluke of Bread Knife
Bread Knife Confirmed in the catalog @3005
Mar 2 – Jun 15, 2020 · Monterey Bay

Monterey Bay · Mar – Jun 2020

223 m
Deepest dive
9:09
Longest dive
92
Dives
Sightings
8
Days between first and last sighting
105
Deepest dive on record
223 m · this residency

Dive stats modelled within real depth limits — not measured

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SightingSeafloorSea tempDeepest dive (modelled)
Mar 2, 202091 m12.1°C83 m
Mar 5, 2020741 m12.6°C182 m
Mar 6, 20201,798 m12.5°C30 m
Mar 7, 2020556 m12.7°C223 m
May 2, 202052 m12.5°C38 m
Jun 13, 2020294 m12.7°C60 m
Jun 14, 202050 m13.5°C37 m
Jun 15, 202062 m13.9°C36 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 2, 2020 — seafloor 91 m (measured), deepest dive 83 m (modelled)Mar 2Mar 5, 2020 — seafloor 741 m (measured), deepest dive 182 m (modelled)Mar 5Mar 6, 2020 — seafloor 1,798 m (measured), deepest dive 30 m (modelled)Mar 6Mar 7, 2020 — seafloor 556 m (measured), deepest dive 223 m (modelled)Mar 7May 2, 2020 — seafloor 52 m (measured), deepest dive 38 m (modelled)May 2Jun 13, 2020 — seafloor 294 m (measured), deepest dive 60 m (modelled)Jun 13Jun 14, 2020 — seafloor 50 m (measured), deepest dive 37 m (modelled)Jun 14Jun 15, 2020 — seafloor 62 m (measured), deepest dive 36 m (modelled)Jun 15

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

Dives

223 m
Deepest dive
9:09
Longest dive
92
Dives
27 m
Avg dive depth
8
Sightings
105
Days first → last

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Dive profile

modelled
0125250223 mstartdive sequence (illustrative)

Depth shaped by the seafloor limit here (556 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 · Mar 7, 2020

measured
Seafloor depth
556 m
Sea-surface temperature
12.7°C
Distance from shore
5.0 km

Across the residency · 8 sightings

measured
Seafloor depth
50 m – 1,798 m
Sea-surface temperature
12.1°C – 13.9°C
Distance from shore
4.0 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 8 catalogued encounters on Happywhale.

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