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Monterey Bay

Cloud Lightning – Residency

15th sighting in Monterey Bay
Fluke of Cloud Lightning
Cloud Lightning Confirmed in the catalog @3639
Aug 4 – Sep 2, 2017 · Monterey Bay

Monterey Bay · Aug – Sep 2017

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Deepest dive
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Longest dive
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Dives
Sightings
15
Days between first and last sighting
29

Dive stats modelled within real depth limits — not measured

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SightingSeafloorSea tempDeepest dive (modelled)
Aug 4, 201777 m15.1°C—
Aug 7, 2017292 m16.1°C—
Aug 10, 201775 m15.0°C—
Aug 12, 2017382 m14.6°C—
Aug 14, 2017130 m15.1°C—
Aug 15, 2017254 m15.0°C—
Aug 16, 2017139 m15.3°C—
Aug 18, 2017194 m15.4°C—
Aug 19, 2017567 m15.5°C—
Aug 26, 2017227 m15.7°C—
Aug 28, 2017187 m15.9°C—
Aug 29, 2017150 m15.6°C—
Aug 31, 201771 m15.4°C—
Sep 1, 201760 m16.3°C—
Sep 2, 2017567 m17.1°C—

Seafloor and sea temperature measured · ✳ dives modelled

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Deepest dive against the seafloor, per sighting

Seafloor · measured Deepest dive · modelled
Aug 4, 2017 — seafloor 77 m (measured), deepest dive — (modelled)Aug 4Aug 7, 2017 — seafloor 292 m (measured), deepest dive — (modelled)Aug 10, 2017 — seafloor 75 m (measured), deepest dive — (modelled)Aug 12, 2017 — seafloor 382 m (measured), deepest dive — (modelled)Aug 12Aug 14, 2017 — seafloor 130 m (measured), deepest dive — (modelled)Aug 15, 2017 — seafloor 254 m (measured), deepest dive — (modelled)Aug 16, 2017 — seafloor 139 m (measured), deepest dive — (modelled)Aug 16Aug 18, 2017 — seafloor 194 m (measured), deepest dive — (modelled)Aug 19, 2017 — seafloor 567 m (measured), deepest dive — (modelled)Aug 26, 2017 — seafloor 227 m (measured), deepest dive — (modelled)Aug 26Aug 28, 2017 — seafloor 187 m (measured), deepest dive — (modelled)Aug 29, 2017 — seafloor 150 m (measured), deepest dive — (modelled)Aug 31, 2017 — seafloor 71 m (measured), deepest dive — (modelled)Aug 31Sep 1, 2017 — seafloor 60 m (measured), deepest dive — (modelled)Sep 2, 2017 — seafloor 567 m (measured), deepest dive — (modelled)

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
15
Sightings
29
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 · Sep 2, 2017

measured
Seafloor depth
567 m
Sea-surface temperature
17.1°C
Distance from shore
16.0 km

Across the residency · 15 sightings

measured
Seafloor depth
60 m – 567 m
Sea-surface temperature
14.6°C – 17.1°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 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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