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Monterey Bay

CRC-12117 – Residency

4th sighting in Monterey Bay
Fluke of CRC-12117
CRC-12117 Confirmed in the catalog @388
May 6 – Jul 23, 2012 · Monterey Bay

Monterey Bay · May – Jul 2012

69 m
Deepest dive
2:47
Longest dive
15
Dives
Sightings
3
Days between first and last sighting
78

Dive stats modelled within real depth limits — not measured

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SightingSeafloorSea tempDeepest dive (modelled)
May 6, 201261 m11.7°C30 m
Jul 22, 2012190 m14.1°C38 m
Jul 23, 2012156 m13.8°C69 m

Seafloor and sea temperature measured · ✳ dives modelled

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Deepest dive against the seafloor, per sighting

Seafloor · measured Deepest dive · modelled
May 6, 2012 — seafloor 61 m (measured), deepest dive 30 m (modelled)May 6Jul 22, 2012 — seafloor 190 m (measured), deepest dive 38 m (modelled)Jul 22Jul 23, 2012 — seafloor 156 m (measured), deepest dive 69 m (modelled)Jul 23

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

Dives

69 m
Deepest dive
2:47
Longest dive
15
Dives
22 m
Avg dive depth
3
Sightings
78
Days first → last

Dive metrics are modelled within real depth limits — not measured

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Dive profile

modelled
05010069 mstartdive sequence (illustrative)

Depth shaped by the seafloor limit here (156 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 · Jul 23, 2012

measured
Seafloor depth
156 m
Sea-surface temperature
13.8°C
Distance from shore
13.0 km

Across the residency · 3 sightings

measured
Seafloor depth
61 m – 190 m
Sea-surface temperature
11.7°C – 14.1°C
Distance from shore
9.0 km – 13.0 km

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

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Source records

This activity is assembled from 3 catalogued encounters on Happywhale.

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