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Monterey Bay

CRC-12117 – Residency

26th sighting in Monterey Bay
Fluke of CRC-12117
CRC-12117 Confirmed in the catalog @388
Oct 16 – 27, 2024 · Monterey Bay

October in the Bay

Same waters calling me back, krill thick enough to taste the autumn.

152 m
Deepest dive
6:31
Longest dive
63
Dives
Sightings
4
Days between first and last sighting
11

Dive stats modelled within real depth limits — not measured

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SightingSeafloorSea tempDeepest dive (modelled)
Oct 16, 202452 m15.5°C34 m
Oct 19, 2024231 m14.5°C35 m
Oct 21, 2024567 m14.5°C76 m
Oct 27, 2024583 m13.3°C152 m

Seafloor and sea temperature measured · ✳ dives modelled

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Deepest dive against the seafloor, per sighting

Seafloor · measured Deepest dive · modelled
Oct 16, 2024 — seafloor 52 m (measured), deepest dive 34 m (modelled)Oct 16Oct 19, 2024 — seafloor 231 m (measured), deepest dive 35 m (modelled)Oct 19Oct 21, 2024 — seafloor 567 m (measured), deepest dive 76 m (modelled)Oct 21Oct 27, 2024 — seafloor 583 m (measured), deepest dive 152 m (modelled)Oct 27

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

Dives

152 m
Deepest dive
6:31
Longest dive
63
Dives
25 m
Avg dive depth
4
Sightings
11
Days first → last

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Dive profile

modelled
0100200152 mstartdive sequence (illustrative)

Depth shaped by the seafloor limit here (583 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 27, 2024

measured
Seafloor depth
583 m
Sea-surface temperature
13.3°C
Distance from shore
4.0 km

Across the residency · 4 sightings

measured
Seafloor depth
52 m – 583 m
Sea-surface temperature
13.3°C – 15.5°C
Distance from shore
4.0 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 4 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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