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Monterey Bay

Exclaim – Residency

40th sighting in Monterey Bay
Fluke of Exclaim
Exclaim Confirmed in the catalog @3185
May 7 – Sep 2, 2023 · Monterey Bay

Monterey Bay Summer Stay

Four months in familiar waters, surfacing where the currents know me best.

159 m
Deepest dive
6:18
Longest dive
91
Dives
Sightings
8
Days between first and last sighting
118

Dive stats modelled within real depth limits — not measured

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SightingSeafloorSea tempDeepest dive (modelled)
May 7, 2023131 m14.6°C45 m
Jul 15, 202394 m14.3°C47 m
Jul 17, 202390 m15.6°C43 m
Jul 17, 202390 m15.6°C44 m
Aug 26, 2023126 m18.0°C88 m
Aug 26, 2023254 m18.0°C89 m
Aug 27, 2023567 m17.8°C159 m
Sep 2, 202344 m15.2°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
May 7, 2023 — seafloor 131 m (measured), deepest dive 45 m (modelled)May 7Jul 15, 2023 — seafloor 94 m (measured), deepest dive 47 m (modelled)Jul 15Jul 17, 2023 — seafloor 90 m (measured), deepest dive 43 m (modelled)Jul 17Jul 17, 2023 — seafloor 90 m (measured), deepest dive 44 m (modelled)Jul 17Aug 26, 2023 — seafloor 126 m (measured), deepest dive 88 m (modelled)Aug 26Aug 26, 2023 — seafloor 254 m (measured), deepest dive 89 m (modelled)Aug 26Aug 27, 2023 — seafloor 567 m (measured), deepest dive 159 m (modelled)Aug 27Sep 2, 2023 — seafloor 44 m (measured), deepest dive 31 m (modelled)Sep 2

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

Dives

159 m
Deepest dive
6:18
Longest dive
91
Dives
24 m
Avg dive depth
8
Sightings
118
Days first → last

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Dive profile

modelled
0100200159 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 · Aug 27, 2023

measured
Seafloor depth
567 m
Sea-surface temperature
17.8°C
Distance from shore
16.0 km

Across the residency · 8 sightings

measured
Seafloor depth
44 m – 567 m
Sea-surface temperature
14.3°C – 18.0°C
Distance from shore
4.0 km – 20.0 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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