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Monterey Bay

CRC-16127 – Residency

42nd sighting in Monterey Bay
Fluke of CRC-16127
CRC-16127 Confirmed in the catalog @4402
Sep 13 – Oct 3, 2024 · Monterey Bay

Monterey Bay · Sep – Oct 2024

138 m
Deepest dive
4:31
Longest dive
45
Dives
Sightings
4
Days between first and last sighting
20

Dive stats modelled within real depth limits — not measured

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SightingSeafloorSea tempDeepest dive (modelled)
Sep 13, 2024650 m14.9°C138 m
Oct 1, 202493 m16.3°C72 m
Oct 2, 202434 m16.6°C31 m
Oct 3, 202441 m16.5°C36 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 13, 2024 — seafloor 650 m (measured), deepest dive 138 m (modelled)Sep 13Oct 1, 2024 — seafloor 93 m (measured), deepest dive 72 m (modelled)Oct 1Oct 2, 2024 — seafloor 34 m (measured), deepest dive 31 m (modelled)Oct 2Oct 3, 2024 — seafloor 41 m (measured), deepest dive 36 m (modelled)Oct 3

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

Dives

138 m
Deepest dive
4:31
Longest dive
45
Dives
22 m
Avg dive depth
4
Sightings
20
Days first → last

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Dive profile

modelled
075150138 mstartdive sequence (illustrative)

Depth shaped by the seafloor limit here (650 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 · Sep 13, 2024

measured
Seafloor depth
650 m
Sea-surface temperature
14.9°C
Distance from shore
5.0 km

Across the residency · 4 sightings

measured
Seafloor depth
34 m – 650 m
Sea-surface temperature
14.9°C – 16.6°C
Distance from shore
2.0 km – 5.0 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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