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Monterey Bay

Fallon – Residency

105th sighting in Monterey Bay
Fluke of Fallon
Fallon Confirmed in the catalog @4517
May 27 – Oct 9, 2022 · Monterey Bay

Monterey Bay · May – Oct 2022

325 m
Deepest dive
8:01
Longest dive
158
Dives
Sightings
12
Days between first and last sighting
135

Dive stats modelled within real depth limits — not measured

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SightingSeafloorSea tempDeepest dive (modelled)
May 27, 202274 m12.0°C46 m
May 28, 2022112 m12.2°C94 m
May 30, 202268 m12.0°C56 m
Jun 9, 202277 m12.7°C65 m
Jul 17, 202294 m15.0°C66 m
Sep 6, 2022159 m17.1°C77 m
Sep 7, 202284 m16.8°C31 m
Sep 16, 2022137 m15.0°C99 m
Sep 30, 2022201 m16.3°C33 m
Oct 6, 2022437 m16.5°C325 m
Oct 6, 2022567 m16.8°C104 m
Oct 9, 202274 m15.3°C66 m

Seafloor and sea temperature measured · ✳ dives modelled

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Deepest dive against the seafloor, per sighting

Seafloor · measured Deepest dive · modelled
May 27, 2022 — seafloor 74 m (measured), deepest dive 46 m (modelled)May 27May 28, 2022 — seafloor 112 m (measured), deepest dive 94 m (modelled)May 28May 30, 2022 — seafloor 68 m (measured), deepest dive 56 m (modelled)May 30Jun 9, 2022 — seafloor 77 m (measured), deepest dive 65 m (modelled)Jun 9Jul 17, 2022 — seafloor 94 m (measured), deepest dive 66 m (modelled)Jul 17Sep 6, 2022 — seafloor 159 m (measured), deepest dive 77 m (modelled)Sep 6Sep 7, 2022 — seafloor 84 m (measured), deepest dive 31 m (modelled)Sep 7Sep 16, 2022 — seafloor 137 m (measured), deepest dive 99 m (modelled)Sep 16Sep 30, 2022 — seafloor 201 m (measured), deepest dive 33 m (modelled)Sep 30Oct 6, 2022 — seafloor 437 m (measured), deepest dive 325 m (modelled)Oct 6Oct 6, 2022 — seafloor 567 m (measured), deepest dive 104 m (modelled)Oct 6Oct 9, 2022 — seafloor 74 m (measured), deepest dive 66 m (modelled)Oct 9

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

Dives

325 m
Deepest dive
8:01
Longest dive
158
Dives
30 m
Avg dive depth
12
Sightings
135
Days first → last

Dive metrics are modelled within real depth limits — not measured

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Dive profile

modelled
0175350325 mstartdive sequence (illustrative)

Depth shaped by the seafloor limit here (437 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 6, 2022

measured
Seafloor depth
437 m
Sea-surface temperature
16.5°C
Distance from shore
9.0 km

Across the residency · 12 sightings

measured
Seafloor depth
68 m – 567 m
Sea-surface temperature
12.0°C – 17.1°C
Distance from shore
2.0 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 12 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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