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Monterey Bay

Shadow – Residency

12th sighting in Monterey Bay
Fluke of Shadow
Shadow Confirmed in the catalog @3685
Jul 22 – Oct 15, 2018 · Monterey Bay

Monterey Bay · Jul – Oct 2018

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Deepest dive
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Longest dive
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Dives
Sightings
12
Days between first and last sighting
85

Dive stats modelled within real depth limits — not measured

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SightingSeafloorSea tempDeepest dive (modelled)
Jul 22, 201894 m17.0°C—
Jul 24, 201889 m16.9°C—
Jul 25, 2018102 m15.5°C—
Jul 28, 201865 m15.0°C—
Jul 29, 201838 m14.5°C—
Aug 9, 2018209 m13.0°C—
Aug 11, 201817 m14.1°C—
Aug 15, 201868 m15.4°C—
Sep 9, 2018110 m15.2°C—
Sep 10, 2018254 m14.9°C—
Oct 12, 201890 m15.4°C—
Oct 15, 2018454 m16.3°C—

Seafloor and sea temperature measured · ✳ dives modelled

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Deepest dive against the seafloor, per sighting

Seafloor · measured Deepest dive · modelled
Jul 22, 2018 — seafloor 94 m (measured), deepest dive — (modelled)Jul 22Jul 24, 2018 — seafloor 89 m (measured), deepest dive — (modelled)Jul 24Jul 25, 2018 — seafloor 102 m (measured), deepest dive — (modelled)Jul 25Jul 28, 2018 — seafloor 65 m (measured), deepest dive — (modelled)Jul 28Jul 29, 2018 — seafloor 38 m (measured), deepest dive — (modelled)Jul 29Aug 9, 2018 — seafloor 209 m (measured), deepest dive — (modelled)Aug 9Aug 11, 2018 — seafloor 17 m (measured), deepest dive — (modelled)Aug 11Aug 15, 2018 — seafloor 68 m (measured), deepest dive — (modelled)Aug 15Sep 9, 2018 — seafloor 110 m (measured), deepest dive — (modelled)Sep 9Sep 10, 2018 — seafloor 254 m (measured), deepest dive — (modelled)Sep 10Oct 12, 2018 — seafloor 90 m (measured), deepest dive — (modelled)Oct 12Oct 15, 2018 — seafloor 454 m (measured), deepest dive — (modelled)Oct 15

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
12
Sightings
85
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 15, 2018

measured
Seafloor depth
454 m
Sea-surface temperature
16.3°C
Distance from shore
6.0 km

Across the residency · 12 sightings

measured
Seafloor depth
17 m – 454 m
Sea-surface temperature
13.0°C – 17.0°C
Distance from shore
2.0 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 12 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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