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Monterey Bay

Foster Mom – Residency

44th sighting in Monterey Bay
Fluke of Foster Mom
Foster Mom Confirmed in the catalog @3125
Jul 15 – Sep 5, 2017 · Monterey Bay

Monterey Bay · Jul – Sep 2017

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Deepest dive
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Longest dive
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Dives
Sightings
21
Days between first and last sighting
52

Dive stats modelled within real depth limits — not measured

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SightingSeafloorSea tempDeepest dive (modelled)
Jul 15, 201753 m12.9°C—
Jul 17, 201783 m12.9°C—
Jul 22, 201760 m12.5°C—
Jul 23, 201765 m13.3°C—
Jul 24, 201755 m13.7°C—
Jul 25, 201760 m13.8°C—
Aug 2, 2017135 m14.8°C—
Aug 4, 2017121 m15.0°C—
Aug 6, 201755 m16.0°C—
Aug 7, 2017166 m16.0°C—
Aug 9, 201779 m15.0°C—
Aug 10, 2017243 m14.9°C—
Aug 11, 2017251 m14.7°C—
Aug 12, 2017230 m14.6°C—
Aug 13, 2017321 m14.8°C—
Aug 14, 2017313 m15.1°C—
Aug 23, 2017149 m16.1°C—
Aug 25, 2017254 m15.5°C—

Seafloor and sea temperature measured · ✳ dives modelled ·

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Deepest dive against the seafloor, per sighting

Seafloor · measured Deepest dive · modelled
Jul 15, 2017 — seafloor 53 m (measured), deepest dive — (modelled)Jul 15Jul 17, 2017 — seafloor 83 m (measured), deepest dive — (modelled)Jul 22, 2017 — seafloor 60 m (measured), deepest dive — (modelled)Jul 23, 2017 — seafloor 65 m (measured), deepest dive — (modelled)Jul 24, 2017 — seafloor 55 m (measured), deepest dive — (modelled)Jul 24Jul 25, 2017 — seafloor 60 m (measured), deepest dive — (modelled)Aug 2, 2017 — seafloor 135 m (measured), deepest dive — (modelled)Aug 4, 2017 — seafloor 121 m (measured), deepest dive — (modelled)Aug 6, 2017 — seafloor 55 m (measured), deepest dive — (modelled)Aug 6Aug 7, 2017 — seafloor 166 m (measured), deepest dive — (modelled)Aug 9, 2017 — seafloor 79 m (measured), deepest dive — (modelled)Aug 10, 2017 — seafloor 243 m (measured), deepest dive — (modelled)Aug 11, 2017 — seafloor 251 m (measured), deepest dive — (modelled)Aug 11Aug 12, 2017 — seafloor 230 m (measured), deepest dive — (modelled)Aug 13, 2017 — seafloor 321 m (measured), deepest dive — (modelled)Aug 14, 2017 — seafloor 313 m (measured), deepest dive — (modelled)Aug 23, 2017 — seafloor 149 m (measured), deepest dive — (modelled)Aug 23Aug 25, 2017 — seafloor 254 m (measured), deepest dive — (modelled)Aug 26, 2017 — seafloor 227 m (measured), deepest dive — (modelled)Sep 1, 2017 — seafloor 72 m (measured), deepest dive — (modelled)Sep 5, 2017 — seafloor 118 m (measured), deepest dive — (modelled)Sep 5

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

Dives

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Deepest dive
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Longest dive
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Dives
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Avg dive depth
21
Sightings
52
Days first → last

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Dive profile

modelled
02550startdive sequence (illustrative)

Modelled from the published dive-behaviour distribution. 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 5, 2017

measured
Seafloor depth
118 m
Sea-surface temperature
17.3°C
Distance from shore
4.0 km

Across the residency · 21 sightings

measured
Seafloor depth
53 m – 321 m
Sea-surface temperature
12.5°C – 17.3°C
Distance from shore
2.0 km – 6.0 km

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

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Source records

This activity is assembled from 21 catalogued encounters on Happywhale.

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