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Monterey Bay

Sarafinny – Residency

37th sighting in Monterey Bay
Fluke of Sarafinny
Sarafinny Confirmed in the catalog @3241
Feb 17 – Jun 28, 2023 · Monterey Bay

Monterey Bay · Feb – Jun 2023

237 m
Deepest dive
11:20
Longest dive
37
Dives
Sightings
4
Days between first and last sighting
131
Deepest dive on record
237 m · this residency

Dive stats modelled within real depth limits — not measured

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SightingSeafloorSea tempDeepest dive (modelled)
Feb 17, 2023531 m11.1°C237 m
Apr 28, 202388 m11.3°C72 m
Jun 27, 202369 m14.7°C23 m
Jun 28, 202383 m14.6°C67 m

Seafloor and sea temperature measured · ✳ dives modelled

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Deepest dive against the seafloor, per sighting

Seafloor · measured Deepest dive · modelled
Feb 17, 2023 — seafloor 531 m (measured), deepest dive 237 m (modelled)Feb 17Apr 28, 2023 — seafloor 88 m (measured), deepest dive 72 m (modelled)Apr 28Jun 27, 2023 — seafloor 69 m (measured), deepest dive 23 m (modelled)Jun 27Jun 28, 2023 — seafloor 83 m (measured), deepest dive 67 m (modelled)Jun 28

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

Dives

237 m
Deepest dive
11:20
Longest dive
37
Dives
33 m
Avg dive depth
4
Sightings
131
Days first → last

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Dive profile

modelled
0125250237 mstartdive sequence (illustrative)

Depth shaped by the seafloor limit here (531 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 · Feb 17, 2023

measured
Seafloor depth
531 m
Sea-surface temperature
11.1°C
Distance from shore
14.0 km

Across the residency · 4 sightings

measured
Seafloor depth
69 m – 531 m
Sea-surface temperature
11.1°C – 14.7°C
Distance from shore
8.0 km – 14.0 km

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

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Source records

This activity is assembled from 4 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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