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Monterey Bay

Nacho – Residency

51st sighting in Monterey Bay
Fluke of Nacho
Nacho Confirmed in the catalog @421
Aug 8 – Sep 16, 2024 · Monterey Bay

Another Monterey Summer

The bay keeps calling me back, and who am I to argue with old friends.

107 m
Deepest dive
3:42
Longest dive
46
Dives
Sightings
5
Days between first and last sighting
39

Dive stats modelled within real depth limits — not measured

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SightingSeafloorSea tempDeepest dive (modelled)
Aug 8, 2024125 m14.3°C107 m
Aug 9, 2024107 m14.1°C34 m
Aug 11, 2024100 m13.9°C62 m
Sep 13, 2024104 m15.1°C83 m
Sep 16, 202463 m15.0°C41 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 8, 2024 — seafloor 125 m (measured), deepest dive 107 m (modelled)Aug 8Aug 9, 2024 — seafloor 107 m (measured), deepest dive 34 m (modelled)Aug 9Aug 11, 2024 — seafloor 100 m (measured), deepest dive 62 m (modelled)Aug 11Sep 13, 2024 — seafloor 104 m (measured), deepest dive 83 m (modelled)Sep 13Sep 16, 2024 — seafloor 63 m (measured), deepest dive 41 m (modelled)Sep 16

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

Dives

107 m
Deepest dive
3:42
Longest dive
46
Dives
28 m
Avg dive depth
5
Sightings
39
Days first → last

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Dive profile

modelled
075150107 mstartdive sequence (illustrative)

Depth shaped by the seafloor limit here (125 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 8, 2024

measured
Seafloor depth
125 m
Sea-surface temperature
14.3°C
Distance from shore
7.0 km

Across the residency · 5 sightings

measured
Seafloor depth
63 m – 125 m
Sea-surface temperature
13.9°C – 15.1°C
Distance from shore
3.0 km – 13.0 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.

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