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Monterey Bay

CRC-12572 – Residency

52nd sighting in Monterey Bay
Fluke of CRC-12572
CRC-12572 Confirmed in the catalog @31867
Jul 4 – Oct 26, 2024 · Monterey Bay

Monterey Bay · Jul – Oct 2024

189 m
Deepest dive
6:03
Longest dive
127
Dives
Sightings
11
Days between first and last sighting
115

Dive stats modelled within real depth limits — not measured

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SightingSeafloorSea tempDeepest dive (modelled)
Jul 4, 20241,187 m14.0°C189 m
Sep 7, 2024242 m16.6°C129 m
Sep 27, 2024266 m15.9°C148 m
Oct 4, 2024174 m16.5°C71 m
Oct 11, 2024155 m15.5°C20 m
Oct 12, 2024248 m15.4°C102 m
Oct 14, 2024114 m15.7°C38 m
Oct 19, 20241,003 m14.5°C81 m
Oct 19, 2024231 m14.5°C136 m
Oct 21, 2024187 m14.4°C103 m
Oct 26, 20241,026 m14.2°C97 m

Seafloor and sea temperature measured · ✳ dives modelled

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Deepest dive against the seafloor, per sighting

Seafloor · measured Deepest dive · modelled
Jul 4, 2024 — seafloor 1,187 m (measured), deepest dive 189 m (modelled)Jul 4Sep 7, 2024 — seafloor 242 m (measured), deepest dive 129 m (modelled)Sep 7Sep 27, 2024 — seafloor 266 m (measured), deepest dive 148 m (modelled)Sep 27Oct 4, 2024 — seafloor 174 m (measured), deepest dive 71 m (modelled)Oct 4Oct 11, 2024 — seafloor 155 m (measured), deepest dive 20 m (modelled)Oct 11Oct 12, 2024 — seafloor 248 m (measured), deepest dive 102 m (modelled)Oct 12Oct 14, 2024 — seafloor 114 m (measured), deepest dive 38 m (modelled)Oct 14Oct 19, 2024 — seafloor 1,003 m (measured), deepest dive 81 m (modelled)Oct 19Oct 19, 2024 — seafloor 231 m (measured), deepest dive 136 m (modelled)Oct 19Oct 21, 2024 — seafloor 187 m (measured), deepest dive 103 m (modelled)Oct 21Oct 26, 2024 — seafloor 1,026 m (measured), deepest dive 97 m (modelled)Oct 26

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

Dives

189 m
Deepest dive
6:03
Longest dive
127
Dives
34 m
Avg dive depth
11
Sightings
115
Days first → last

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Dive profile

modelled
0100200189 mstartdive sequence (illustrative)

Depth shaped by the seafloor limit here (1,187 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 · Jul 4, 2024

measured
Seafloor depth
1,187 m
Sea-surface temperature
14.0°C
Distance from shore
10.0 km

Across the residency · 11 sightings

measured
Seafloor depth
114 m – 1,187 m
Sea-surface temperature
14.0°C – 16.6°C
Distance from shore
3.0 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 11 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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