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Monterey Bay

CRC-11268 – Residency

42nd sighting in Monterey Bay
Fluke of CRC-11268
CRC-11268 Confirmed in the catalog @4616
Jun 29 – Sep 18, 2024 · Monterey Bay

Summer in the Bay

The krill were thick here, so I stayed through the long bright months.

142 m
Deepest dive
5:09
Longest dive
72
Dives
Sightings
5
Days between first and last sighting
81

Dive stats modelled within real depth limits — not measured

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SightingSeafloorSea tempDeepest dive (modelled)
Jun 29, 2024177 m14.0°C110 m
Jul 8, 202498 m14.2°C32 m
Aug 2, 202492 m15.2°C65 m
Aug 16, 2024107 m13.6°C34 m
Sep 18, 2024567 m15.0°C142 m

Seafloor and sea temperature measured · ✳ dives modelled

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Deepest dive against the seafloor, per sighting

Seafloor · measured Deepest dive · modelled
Jun 29, 2024 — seafloor 177 m (measured), deepest dive 110 m (modelled)Jun 29Jul 8, 2024 — seafloor 98 m (measured), deepest dive 32 m (modelled)Jul 8Aug 2, 2024 — seafloor 92 m (measured), deepest dive 65 m (modelled)Aug 2Aug 16, 2024 — seafloor 107 m (measured), deepest dive 34 m (modelled)Aug 16Sep 18, 2024 — seafloor 567 m (measured), deepest dive 142 m (modelled)Sep 18

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

Dives

142 m
Deepest dive
5:09
Longest dive
72
Dives
23 m
Avg dive depth
5
Sightings
81
Days first → last

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Dive profile

modelled
075150142 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 18, 2024

measured
Seafloor depth
567 m
Sea-surface temperature
15.0°C
Distance from shore
16.0 km

Across the residency · 5 sightings

measured
Seafloor depth
92 m – 567 m
Sea-surface temperature
13.6°C – 15.2°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 5 catalogued encounters on Happywhale.

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