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Monterey Bay

Slippery – Residency

12th sighting in Monterey Bay
Fluke of Slippery
Slippery Confirmed in the catalog @413
Jul 23 – Sep 1, 2017 · Monterey Bay

Monterey Bay · Jul – Sep 2017

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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
40

Dive stats modelled within real depth limits — not measured

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SightingSeafloorSea tempDeepest dive (modelled)
Jul 23, 2017254 m——
Jul 24, 201757 m——
Jul 25, 201795 m——
Jul 26, 2017136 m——
Jul 27, 201798 m——
Jul 29, 201763 m——
Aug 12, 2017231 m——
Aug 16, 201791 m——
Aug 19, 2017567 m——
Aug 25, 2017289 m——
Aug 28, 2017274 m——
Sep 1, 2017130 m——

Seafloor and sea temperature measured · ✳ dives modelled

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Deepest dive against the seafloor, per sighting

Seafloor · measured Deepest dive · modelled
Jul 23, 2017 — seafloor 254 m (measured), deepest dive — (modelled)Jul 23Jul 24, 2017 — seafloor 57 m (measured), deepest dive — (modelled)Jul 24Jul 25, 2017 — seafloor 95 m (measured), deepest dive — (modelled)Jul 25Jul 26, 2017 — seafloor 136 m (measured), deepest dive — (modelled)Jul 26Jul 27, 2017 — seafloor 98 m (measured), deepest dive — (modelled)Jul 27Jul 29, 2017 — seafloor 63 m (measured), deepest dive — (modelled)Jul 29Aug 12, 2017 — seafloor 231 m (measured), deepest dive — (modelled)Aug 12Aug 16, 2017 — seafloor 91 m (measured), deepest dive — (modelled)Aug 16Aug 19, 2017 — seafloor 567 m (measured), deepest dive — (modelled)Aug 19Aug 25, 2017 — seafloor 289 m (measured), deepest dive — (modelled)Aug 25Aug 28, 2017 — seafloor 274 m (measured), deepest dive — (modelled)Aug 28Sep 1, 2017 — seafloor 130 m (measured), deepest dive — (modelled)Sep 1

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
40
Days first → last

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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 · Sep 1, 2017

measured
Seafloor depth
130 m
Sea-surface temperature
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Distance from shore
3.0 km

Across the residency · 12 sightings

measured
Seafloor depth
57 m – 567 m
Sea-surface temperature
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Distance from shore
2.0 km – 16.0 km

Sources: GEBCO seafloor grid · 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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