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Monterey Bay

Nacho – Residency

38th sighting in Monterey Bay
Fluke of Nacho
Nacho Confirmed in the catalog @421
Sep 22 – Oct 10, 2022 · Monterey Bay

Monterey Days

These familiar waters keep calling me back, three weeks of good feeding and old friends.

80 m
Deepest dive
3:17
Longest dive
50
Dives
Sightings
5
Days between first and last sighting
18

Dive stats modelled within real depth limits — not measured

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SightingSeafloorSea tempDeepest dive (modelled)
Sep 22, 202272 m15.9°C32 m
Sep 25, 2022542 m16.2°C55 m
Oct 1, 2022425 m16.1°C80 m
Oct 4, 2022567 m16.5°C36 m
Oct 10, 202250 m15.4°C44 m

Seafloor and sea temperature measured · ✳ dives modelled

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Deepest dive against the seafloor, per sighting

Seafloor · measured Deepest dive · modelled
Sep 22, 2022 — seafloor 72 m (measured), deepest dive 32 m (modelled)Sep 22Sep 25, 2022 — seafloor 542 m (measured), deepest dive 55 m (modelled)Sep 25Oct 1, 2022 — seafloor 425 m (measured), deepest dive 80 m (modelled)Oct 1Oct 4, 2022 — seafloor 567 m (measured), deepest dive 36 m (modelled)Oct 4Oct 10, 2022 — seafloor 50 m (measured), deepest dive 44 m (modelled)Oct 10

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

Dives

80 m
Deepest dive
3:17
Longest dive
50
Dives
24 m
Avg dive depth
5
Sightings
18
Days first → last

Dive metrics are modelled within real depth limits — not measured

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Dive profile

modelled
05010080 mstartdive sequence (illustrative)

Depth shaped by the seafloor limit here (425 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 · Oct 1, 2022

measured
Seafloor depth
425 m
Sea-surface temperature
16.1°C
Distance from shore
10.0 km

Across the residency · 5 sightings

measured
Seafloor depth
50 m – 567 m
Sea-surface temperature
15.4°C – 16.5°C
Distance from shore
9.0 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 5 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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