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Banderas Bay

Cloud Lightning – Residency

2nd sighting in Banderas Bay
Fluke of Cloud Lightning
Cloud Lightning Confirmed in the catalog @3639
Dec 27, 2019 – Mar 2, 2020 · Banderas Bay

Banderas Bay · Dec 2019 – Mar 2020

117 m
Deepest dive
3:44
Longest dive
19
Dives
Sightings
2
Days between first and last sighting
66
Deepest dive on record
117 m · this residency

Dive stats modelled within real depth limits — not measured

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SightingSeafloorSea tempDeepest dive (modelled)
Dec 27, 201989 m26.7°C62 m
Mar 2, 2020241 m24.4°C117 m

Seafloor and sea temperature measured · ✳ dives modelled

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Deepest dive against the seafloor, per sighting

Seafloor · measured Deepest dive · modelled
Dec 27, 2019 — seafloor 89 m (measured), deepest dive 62 m (modelled)Dec 27Mar 2, 2020 — seafloor 241 m (measured), deepest dive 117 m (modelled)Mar 2

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

Dives

117 m
Deepest dive
3:44
Longest dive
19
Dives
34 m
Avg dive depth
2
Sightings
66
Days first → last

Dive metrics are modelled within real depth limits — not measured

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Dive profile

modelled
075150117 mstartdive sequence (illustrative)

Depth shaped by the seafloor limit here (241 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 · Mar 2, 2020

measured
Seafloor depth
241 m
Sea-surface temperature
24.4°C
Distance from shore
6.0 km

Across the residency · 2 sightings

measured
Seafloor depth
89 m – 241 m
Sea-surface temperature
24.4°C – 26.7°C
Distance from shore
6.0 km – 7.0 km

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

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Source records

This activity is assembled from 2 catalogued encounters on Happywhale.

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