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Monterey Bay

Nacho – Residency

22nd sighting in Monterey Bay
Fluke of Nacho
Nacho Confirmed in the catalog @421
Aug 31 – Oct 27, 2020 · Monterey Bay

Monterey Bay · Aug – Oct 2020

231 m
Deepest dive
9:28
Longest dive
35
Dives
Sightings
4
Days between first and last sighting
57
Deepest dive on record
231 m · this residency

Dive stats modelled within real depth limits — not measured

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SightingSeafloorSea tempDeepest dive (modelled)
Aug 31, 2020872 m14.8°C231 m
Oct 16, 2020275 m14.9°C110 m
Oct 24, 2020227 m15.2°C16 m
Oct 27, 20201,150 m14.9°C38 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 31, 2020 — seafloor 872 m (measured), deepest dive 231 m (modelled)Aug 31Oct 16, 2020 — seafloor 275 m (measured), deepest dive 110 m (modelled)Oct 16Oct 24, 2020 — seafloor 227 m (measured), deepest dive 16 m (modelled)Oct 24Oct 27, 2020 — seafloor 1,150 m (measured), deepest dive 38 m (modelled)Oct 27

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

Dives

231 m
Deepest dive
9:28
Longest dive
35
Dives
30 m
Avg dive depth
4
Sightings
57
Days first → last

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Dive profile

modelled
0125250231 mstartdive sequence (illustrative)

Depth shaped by the seafloor limit here (872 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 · Aug 31, 2020

measured
Seafloor depth
872 m
Sea-surface temperature
14.8°C
Distance from shore
12.0 km

Across the residency · 4 sightings

measured
Seafloor depth
227 m – 1,150 m
Sea-surface temperature
14.8°C – 15.2°C
Distance from shore
8.0 km – 12.0 km

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

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Source records

This activity is assembled from 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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