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Banderas Bay

CRC-16939 – Residency

4th sighting in Banderas Bay
Fluke of CRC-16939
CRC-16939 Confirmed in the catalog @4295
Dec 26, 2022 – Feb 17, 2023 · Banderas Bay

Banderas Bay · Dec 2022 – Feb 2023

200 m
Deepest dive
5:59
Longest dive
40
Dives
Sightings
3
Days between first and last sighting
53
Deepest dive on record
200 m · this residency

Dive stats modelled within real depth limits — not measured

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SightingSeafloorSea tempDeepest dive (modelled)
Dec 26, 2022409 m—36 m
Jan 5, 2023355 m—200 m
Feb 17, 20231,020 m—190 m

Seafloor and sea temperature measured · ✳ dives modelled

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Deepest dive against the seafloor, per sighting

Seafloor · measured Deepest dive · modelled
Dec 26, 2022 — seafloor 409 m (measured), deepest dive 36 m (modelled)Dec 26Jan 5, 2023 — seafloor 355 m (measured), deepest dive 200 m (modelled)Jan 5Feb 17, 2023 — seafloor 1,020 m (measured), deepest dive 190 m (modelled)Feb 17

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

Dives

200 m
Deepest dive
5:59
Longest dive
40
Dives
39 m
Avg dive depth
3
Sightings
53
Days first → last

Dive metrics are modelled within real depth limits — not measured

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Dive profile

modelled
0100200200 mstartdive sequence (illustrative)

Depth shaped by the seafloor limit here (355 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 · Jan 5, 2023

measured
Seafloor depth
355 m
Sea-surface temperature
—
Distance from shore
7.0 km

Across the residency · 3 sightings

measured
Seafloor depth
355 m – 1,020 m
Sea-surface temperature
—
Distance from shore
6.0 km – 9.0 km

Sources: GEBCO seafloor grid · PacIOOS coastline distance

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Source records

This activity is assembled from 3 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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