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Monterey Bay

CRC-11268 – Residency

33rd sighting in Monterey Bay
Fluke of CRC-11268
CRC-11268 Confirmed in the catalog @4616
Aug 20 – Sep 24, 2021 · Monterey Bay

Five Weeks in Monterey

The bay kept calling me back, day after day, rich with everything I needed.

161 m
Deepest dive
7:47
Longest dive
75
Dives
Sightings
10
Days between first and last sighting
35

Dive stats modelled within real depth limits — not measured

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SightingSeafloorSea tempDeepest dive (modelled)
Aug 20, 2021667 m15.7°C102 m
Aug 27, 2021567 m16.4°C70 m
Aug 28, 202180 m16.7°C45 m
Aug 31, 202153 m17.3°C37 m
Sep 3, 202157 m16.5°C35 m
Sep 4, 202162 m16.4°C33 m
Sep 7, 2021567 m17.9°C161 m
Sep 9, 202171 m18.0°C58 m
Sep 10, 2021303 m18.1°C95 m
Sep 24, 202132 m16.5°C13 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 20, 2021 — seafloor 667 m (measured), deepest dive 102 m (modelled)Aug 20Aug 27, 2021 — seafloor 567 m (measured), deepest dive 70 m (modelled)Aug 27Aug 28, 2021 — seafloor 80 m (measured), deepest dive 45 m (modelled)Aug 28Aug 31, 2021 — seafloor 53 m (measured), deepest dive 37 m (modelled)Aug 31Sep 3, 2021 — seafloor 57 m (measured), deepest dive 35 m (modelled)Sep 3Sep 4, 2021 — seafloor 62 m (measured), deepest dive 33 m (modelled)Sep 4Sep 7, 2021 — seafloor 567 m (measured), deepest dive 161 m (modelled)Sep 7Sep 9, 2021 — seafloor 71 m (measured), deepest dive 58 m (modelled)Sep 9Sep 10, 2021 — seafloor 303 m (measured), deepest dive 95 m (modelled)Sep 10Sep 24, 2021 — seafloor 32 m (measured), deepest dive 13 m (modelled)Sep 24

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

Dives

161 m
Deepest dive
7:47
Longest dive
75
Dives
23 m
Avg dive depth
10
Sightings
35
Days first → last

Dive metrics are modelled within real depth limits — not measured

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Dive profile

modelled
0100200161 mstartdive sequence (illustrative)

Depth shaped by the seafloor limit here (567 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 7, 2021

measured
Seafloor depth
567 m
Sea-surface temperature
17.9°C
Distance from shore
16.0 km

Across the residency · 10 sightings

measured
Seafloor depth
32 m – 667 m
Sea-surface temperature
15.7°C – 18.1°C
Distance from shore
3.0 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 10 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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