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Monterey Bay

CRC-16943 – Residency

34th sighting in Monterey Bay
Fluke of CRC-16943
CRC-16943 Confirmed in the catalog @3302
May 12 – Nov 12, 2023 · Monterey Bay

Monterey Bay · May – Nov 2023

178 m
Deepest dive
6:57
Longest dive
107
Dives
Sightings
9
Days between first and last sighting
184
Deepest dive on record
178 m · this residency

Dive stats modelled within real depth limits — not measured

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SightingSeafloorSea tempDeepest dive (modelled)
May 12, 202336 m12.6°C33 m
Aug 8, 202386 m13.8°C72 m
Aug 11, 2023125 m14.8°C61 m
Aug 12, 2023165 m15.0°C53 m
Sep 3, 202342 m17.2°C29 m
Sep 7, 2023104 m16.4°C54 m
Sep 11, 2023268 m16.3°C178 m
Sep 16, 2023567 m16.4°C144 m
Nov 12, 2023149 m14.5°C47 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 12, 2023 — seafloor 36 m (measured), deepest dive 33 m (modelled)May 12Aug 8, 2023 — seafloor 86 m (measured), deepest dive 72 m (modelled)Aug 8Aug 11, 2023 — seafloor 125 m (measured), deepest dive 61 m (modelled)Aug 11Aug 12, 2023 — seafloor 165 m (measured), deepest dive 53 m (modelled)Aug 12Sep 3, 2023 — seafloor 42 m (measured), deepest dive 29 m (modelled)Sep 3Sep 7, 2023 — seafloor 104 m (measured), deepest dive 54 m (modelled)Sep 7Sep 11, 2023 — seafloor 268 m (measured), deepest dive 178 m (modelled)Sep 11Sep 16, 2023 — seafloor 567 m (measured), deepest dive 144 m (modelled)Sep 16Nov 12, 2023 — seafloor 149 m (measured), deepest dive 47 m (modelled)Nov 12

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

Dives

178 m
Deepest dive
6:57
Longest dive
107
Dives
28 m
Avg dive depth
9
Sightings
184
Days first → last

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Dive profile

modelled
0100200178 mstartdive sequence (illustrative)

Depth shaped by the seafloor limit here (268 m) and the published dive-behaviour distribution. Modelled, not measured.

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Place

Where this happened · Sep 11, 2023

measured
Seafloor depth
268 m
Sea-surface temperature
16.3°C
Distance from shore
12.0 km

Across the residency · 9 sightings

measured
Seafloor depth
36 m – 567 m
Sea-surface temperature
12.6°C – 17.2°C
Distance from shore
2.0 km – 16.0 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.

The photographs and fluke identifications behind every sighting are the work of the contributing observers — the citizen scientists, naturalists and operators who logged them, each named in the underlying GBIF occurrence record. Every activity links out to its source encounters on Happywhale. Basemaps © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL).

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