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Monterey Bay

Needle and Yarn – Residency

14th sighting in Monterey Bay
Fluke of Needle and Yarn
Needle and Yarn Confirmed in the catalog @3298
Jun 9 – Oct 14, 2018 · Monterey Bay

Monterey Bay · Jun – Oct 2018

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Deepest dive
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Longest dive
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Dives
Sightings
9
Days between first and last sighting
128

Dive stats modelled within real depth limits — not measured

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SightingSeafloorSea tempDeepest dive (modelled)
Jun 9, 201869 m——
Jun 10, 201863 m——
Jun 15, 201865 m——
Aug 8, 2018113 m——
Aug 9, 2018166 m——
Aug 10, 201897 m——
Aug 11, 201866 m——
Aug 15, 201870 m——
Oct 14, 2018279 m——

Seafloor and sea temperature measured · ✳ dives modelled

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Deepest dive against the seafloor, per sighting

Seafloor · measured Deepest dive · modelled
Jun 9, 2018 — seafloor 69 m (measured), deepest dive — (modelled)Jun 9Jun 10, 2018 — seafloor 63 m (measured), deepest dive — (modelled)Jun 10Jun 15, 2018 — seafloor 65 m (measured), deepest dive — (modelled)Jun 15Aug 8, 2018 — seafloor 113 m (measured), deepest dive — (modelled)Aug 8Aug 9, 2018 — seafloor 166 m (measured), deepest dive — (modelled)Aug 9Aug 10, 2018 — seafloor 97 m (measured), deepest dive — (modelled)Aug 10Aug 11, 2018 — seafloor 66 m (measured), deepest dive — (modelled)Aug 11Aug 15, 2018 — seafloor 70 m (measured), deepest dive — (modelled)Aug 15Oct 14, 2018 — seafloor 279 m (measured), deepest dive — (modelled)Oct 14

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
9
Sightings
128
Days first → last

Dive metrics are modelled within real depth limits — not measured

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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 · Oct 14, 2018

measured
Seafloor depth
279 m
Sea-surface temperature
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Distance from shore
4.0 km

Across the residency · 9 sightings

measured
Seafloor depth
63 m – 279 m
Sea-surface temperature
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Distance from shore
2.0 km – 5.0 km

Sources: GEBCO seafloor grid · PacIOOS coastline distance

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Source records

This activity is assembled from 9 catalogued encounters on Happywhale.

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