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Monterey Bay

Poppy – Residency

6th sighting in Monterey Bay
Fluke of Poppy
Poppy Confirmed in the catalog @3122
Jun 28 – Sep 7, 2017 · Monterey Bay

Monterey Bay · Jun – Sep 2017

172 m
Deepest dive
5:40
Longest dive
67
Dives
Sightings
6
Days between first and last sighting
71

Dive stats modelled within real depth limits — not measured

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SightingSeafloorSea tempDeepest dive (modelled)
Jun 28, 201754 m—36 m
Jul 16, 201758 m—36 m
Jul 25, 201764 m—44 m
Jul 26, 2017103 m—35 m
Jul 30, 2017362 m—139 m
Sep 7, 2017567 m—172 m

Seafloor and sea temperature measured · ✳ dives modelled

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Deepest dive against the seafloor, per sighting

Seafloor · measured Deepest dive · modelled
Jun 28, 2017 — seafloor 54 m (measured), deepest dive 36 m (modelled)Jun 28Jul 16, 2017 — seafloor 58 m (measured), deepest dive 36 m (modelled)Jul 16Jul 25, 2017 — seafloor 64 m (measured), deepest dive 44 m (modelled)Jul 25Jul 26, 2017 — seafloor 103 m (measured), deepest dive 35 m (modelled)Jul 26Jul 30, 2017 — seafloor 362 m (measured), deepest dive 139 m (modelled)Jul 30Sep 7, 2017 — seafloor 567 m (measured), deepest dive 172 m (modelled)Sep 7

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

Dives

172 m
Deepest dive
5:40
Longest dive
67
Dives
29 m
Avg dive depth
6
Sightings
71
Days first → last

Dive metrics are modelled within real depth limits — not measured

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Dive profile

modelled
0100200172 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 · Sep 7, 2017

measured
Seafloor depth
567 m
Sea-surface temperature
—
Distance from shore
16.0 km

Across the residency · 6 sightings

measured
Seafloor depth
54 m – 567 m
Sea-surface temperature
—
Distance from shore
2.0 km – 16.0 km

Sources: GEBCO seafloor grid · PacIOOS coastline distance

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Source records

This activity is assembled from 6 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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