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Monterey Bay

CRC-16987 – Residency

3rd sighting in Monterey Bay
Fluke of CRC-16987
CRC-16987 Confirmed in the catalog @4163
Aug 23 – Oct 4, 2018 · Monterey Bay

Monterey Bay · Aug – Oct 2018

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Deepest dive
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Longest dive
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Dives
Sightings
4
Days between first and last sighting
42

Dive stats modelled within real depth limits — not measured

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SightingSeafloorSea tempDeepest dive (modelled)
Aug 23, 201850 m——
Sep 17, 2018251 m——
Sep 24, 201846 m——
Oct 4, 201887 m——

Seafloor and sea temperature measured · ✳ dives modelled

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Deepest dive against the seafloor, per sighting

Seafloor · measured Deepest dive · modelled
Aug 23, 2018 — seafloor 50 m (measured), deepest dive — (modelled)Aug 23Sep 17, 2018 — seafloor 251 m (measured), deepest dive — (modelled)Sep 17Sep 24, 2018 — seafloor 46 m (measured), deepest dive — (modelled)Sep 24Oct 4, 2018 — seafloor 87 m (measured), deepest dive — (modelled)Oct 4

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
4
Sightings
42
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 · Oct 4, 2018

measured
Seafloor depth
87 m
Sea-surface temperature
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Distance from shore
2.0 km

Across the residency · 4 sightings

measured
Seafloor depth
46 m – 251 m
Sea-surface temperature
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Distance from shore
2.0 km – 15.0 km

Sources: GEBCO seafloor grid · 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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