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Monterey Bay

CRC-12572 – Residency

34th sighting in Monterey Bay
Fluke of CRC-12572
CRC-12572 Confirmed in the catalog @31867
Sep 13 – Oct 17, 2021 · Monterey Bay

Monterey Bay · Sep – Oct 2021

241 m
Deepest dive
11:11
Longest dive
132
Dives
Sightings
9
Days between first and last sighting
34

Dive stats modelled within real depth limits — not measured

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SightingSeafloorSea tempDeepest dive (modelled)
Sep 13, 2021254 m16.7°C219 m
Sep 22, 2021112 m16.3°C94 m
Oct 4, 20211,442 m15.8°C46 m
Oct 5, 2021107 m15.8°C71 m
Oct 15, 2021463 m14.1°C241 m
Oct 16, 202188 m13.6°C53 m
Oct 16, 20211,055 m14.0°C98 m
Oct 16, 2021281 m13.4°C88 m
Oct 17, 2021382 m13.5°C120 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 13, 2021 — seafloor 254 m (measured), deepest dive 219 m (modelled)Sep 13Sep 22, 2021 — seafloor 112 m (measured), deepest dive 94 m (modelled)Sep 22Oct 4, 2021 — seafloor 1,442 m (measured), deepest dive 46 m (modelled)Oct 4Oct 5, 2021 — seafloor 107 m (measured), deepest dive 71 m (modelled)Oct 5Oct 15, 2021 — seafloor 463 m (measured), deepest dive 241 m (modelled)Oct 15Oct 16, 2021 — seafloor 88 m (measured), deepest dive 53 m (modelled)Oct 16Oct 16, 2021 — seafloor 1,055 m (measured), deepest dive 98 m (modelled)Oct 16Oct 16, 2021 — seafloor 281 m (measured), deepest dive 88 m (modelled)Oct 16Oct 17, 2021 — seafloor 382 m (measured), deepest dive 120 m (modelled)Oct 17

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

Dives

241 m
Deepest dive
11:11
Longest dive
132
Dives
32 m
Avg dive depth
9
Sightings
34
Days first → last

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Dive profile

modelled
0125250241 mstartdive sequence (illustrative)

Depth shaped by the seafloor limit here (463 m) and the published dive-behaviour distribution. Modelled, not measured.

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Deep

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Place

Where this happened · Oct 15, 2021

measured
Seafloor depth
463 m
Sea-surface temperature
14.1°C
Distance from shore
8.0 km

Across the residency · 9 sightings

measured
Seafloor depth
88 m – 1,442 m
Sea-surface temperature
13.4°C – 16.7°C
Distance from shore
4.0 km – 15.0 km

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

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Source records

This activity is assembled from 9 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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