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Monterey Bay

San Andrea – Residency

60th sighting in Monterey Bay
Fluke of San Andrea
San Andrea Confirmed in the catalog @3390
Mar 21 – Oct 2, 2022 · Monterey Bay

Monterey Bay · Mar – Oct 2022

226 m
Deepest dive
6:58
Longest dive
211
Dives
Sightings
15
Days between first and last sighting
195
Deepest dive on record
226 m · this residency

Dive stats modelled within real depth limits — not measured

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SightingSeafloorSea tempDeepest dive (modelled)
Mar 21, 2022114 m12.0°C84 m
Apr 1, 2022567 m11.4°C84 m
Apr 9, 202280 m13.4°C63 m
Apr 24, 2022108 m11.6°C69 m
Apr 24, 202294 m11.6°C73 m
Apr 29, 2022102 m11.1°C29 m
Apr 29, 2022101 m11.1°C84 m
Jun 9, 202288 m12.8°C73 m
Jun 9, 202288 m12.8°C49 m
Jun 11, 2022273 m12.7°C52 m
Jun 12, 20222,145 m12.8°C99 m
Jul 25, 2022420 m15.0°C58 m
Jul 26, 2022108 m14.2°C29 m
Aug 28, 2022225 m14.4°C118 m
Oct 2, 2022995 m15.9°C226 m

Seafloor and sea temperature measured · ✳ dives modelled

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Deepest dive against the seafloor, per sighting

Seafloor · measured Deepest dive · modelled
Mar 21, 2022 — seafloor 114 m (measured), deepest dive 84 m (modelled)Mar 21Apr 1, 2022 — seafloor 567 m (measured), deepest dive 84 m (modelled)Apr 9, 2022 — seafloor 80 m (measured), deepest dive 63 m (modelled)Apr 24, 2022 — seafloor 108 m (measured), deepest dive 69 m (modelled)Apr 24Apr 24, 2022 — seafloor 94 m (measured), deepest dive 73 m (modelled)Apr 29, 2022 — seafloor 102 m (measured), deepest dive 29 m (modelled)Apr 29, 2022 — seafloor 101 m (measured), deepest dive 84 m (modelled)Apr 29Jun 9, 2022 — seafloor 88 m (measured), deepest dive 73 m (modelled)Jun 9, 2022 — seafloor 88 m (measured), deepest dive 49 m (modelled)Jun 11, 2022 — seafloor 273 m (measured), deepest dive 52 m (modelled)Jun 11Jun 12, 2022 — seafloor 2,145 m (measured), deepest dive 99 m (modelled)Jul 25, 2022 — seafloor 420 m (measured), deepest dive 58 m (modelled)Jul 26, 2022 — seafloor 108 m (measured), deepest dive 29 m (modelled)Jul 26Aug 28, 2022 — seafloor 225 m (measured), deepest dive 118 m (modelled)Oct 2, 2022 — seafloor 995 m (measured), deepest dive 226 m (modelled)

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

Dives

226 m
Deepest dive
6:58
Longest dive
211
Dives
27 m
Avg dive depth
15
Sightings
195
Days first → last

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Dive profile

modelled
0125250226 mstartdive sequence (illustrative)

Depth shaped by the seafloor limit here (995 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 · Oct 2, 2022

measured
Seafloor depth
995 m
Sea-surface temperature
15.9°C
Distance from shore
55.0 km

Across the residency · 15 sightings

measured
Seafloor depth
80 m – 2,145 m
Sea-surface temperature
11.1°C – 15.9°C
Distance from shore
4.0 km – 55.0 km

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

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Source records

This activity is assembled from 15 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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