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Monterey Bay

Slippery – Residency

23rd sighting in Monterey Bay
Fluke of Slippery
Slippery Confirmed in the catalog @413
Jul 12 – Aug 2, 2019 · Monterey Bay

Monterey Bay · Jul – Aug 2019

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Deepest dive
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Longest dive
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Dives
Sightings
8
Days between first and last sighting
21

Dive stats modelled within real depth limits — not measured

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SightingSeafloorSea tempDeepest dive (modelled)
Jul 12, 201983 m——
Jul 14, 201957 m——
Jul 14, 201960 m——
Jul 15, 201976 m——
Jul 15, 201980 m——
Jul 16, 2019567 m——
Aug 1, 201984 m——
Aug 2, 2019285 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 12, 2019 — seafloor 83 m (measured), deepest dive — (modelled)Jul 12Jul 14, 2019 — seafloor 57 m (measured), deepest dive — (modelled)Jul 14Jul 14, 2019 — seafloor 60 m (measured), deepest dive — (modelled)Jul 14Jul 15, 2019 — seafloor 76 m (measured), deepest dive — (modelled)Jul 15Jul 15, 2019 — seafloor 80 m (measured), deepest dive — (modelled)Jul 15Jul 16, 2019 — seafloor 567 m (measured), deepest dive — (modelled)Jul 16Aug 1, 2019 — seafloor 84 m (measured), deepest dive — (modelled)Aug 1Aug 2, 2019 — seafloor 285 m (measured), deepest dive — (modelled)Aug 2

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
8
Sightings
21
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 · Aug 2, 2019

measured
Seafloor depth
285 m
Sea-surface temperature
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Distance from shore
12.0 km

Across the residency · 8 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 8 catalogued encounters on Happywhale.

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