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Monterey Bay

William – Residency

23rd sighting in Monterey Bay
Fluke of William
William Confirmed in the catalog @410
Jul 21 – Nov 25, 2018 · Monterey Bay

Monterey Bay · Jul – Nov 2018

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Deepest dive
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Longest dive
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Dives
Sightings
9
Days between first and last sighting
127

Dive stats modelled within real depth limits — not measured

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SightingSeafloorSea tempDeepest dive (modelled)
Jul 21, 2018105 m17.0°C—
Jul 22, 2018126 m17.0°C—
Jul 28, 201858 m15.1°C—
Sep 4, 2018233 m16.2°C—
Sep 4, 2018249 m16.2°C—
Oct 1, 2018143 m14.8°C—
Oct 2, 201894 m15.1°C—
Oct 2, 2018100 m15.0°C—
Nov 25, 2018861 m16.9°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 21, 2018 — seafloor 105 m (measured), deepest dive — (modelled)Jul 21Jul 22, 2018 — seafloor 126 m (measured), deepest dive — (modelled)Jul 22Jul 28, 2018 — seafloor 58 m (measured), deepest dive — (modelled)Jul 28Sep 4, 2018 — seafloor 233 m (measured), deepest dive — (modelled)Sep 4Sep 4, 2018 — seafloor 249 m (measured), deepest dive — (modelled)Sep 4Oct 1, 2018 — seafloor 143 m (measured), deepest dive — (modelled)Oct 1Oct 2, 2018 — seafloor 94 m (measured), deepest dive — (modelled)Oct 2Oct 2, 2018 — seafloor 100 m (measured), deepest dive — (modelled)Oct 2Nov 25, 2018 — seafloor 861 m (measured), deepest dive — (modelled)Nov 25

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
9
Sightings
127
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 · Nov 25, 2018

measured
Seafloor depth
861 m
Sea-surface temperature
16.9°C
Distance from shore
16.0 km

Across the residency · 9 sightings

measured
Seafloor depth
58 m – 861 m
Sea-surface temperature
14.8°C – 17.0°C
Distance from shore
3.0 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 9 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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