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Monterey Bay

Willy II – Residency

42nd sighting in Monterey Bay
Fluke of Willy II
Willy II Confirmed in the catalog @4627
Apr 14 – May 16, 2022 · Monterey Bay

Back to the Bay

Another month in my favorite dining room, where the krill never disappoints.

75 m
Deepest dive
3:49
Longest dive
20
Dives
Sightings
3
Days between first and last sighting
32

Dive stats modelled within real depth limits — not measured

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SightingSeafloorSea tempDeepest dive (modelled)
Apr 14, 202227 m—22 m
May 6, 2022107 m11.2°C75 m
May 16, 202281 m11.1°C54 m

Seafloor and sea temperature measured · ✳ dives modelled

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Deepest dive against the seafloor, per sighting

Seafloor · measured Deepest dive · modelled
Apr 14, 2022 — seafloor 27 m (measured), deepest dive 22 m (modelled)Apr 14May 6, 2022 — seafloor 107 m (measured), deepest dive 75 m (modelled)May 6May 16, 2022 — seafloor 81 m (measured), deepest dive 54 m (modelled)May 16

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

Dives

75 m
Deepest dive
3:49
Longest dive
20
Dives
20 m
Avg dive depth
3
Sightings
32
Days first → last

Dive metrics are modelled within real depth limits — not measured

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Dive profile

modelled
05010075 mstartdive sequence (illustrative)

Depth shaped by the seafloor limit here (107 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 · May 6, 2022

measured
Seafloor depth
107 m
Sea-surface temperature
11.2°C
Distance from shore
10.0 km

Across the residency · 3 sightings

measured
Seafloor depth
27 m – 107 m
Sea-surface temperature
11.1°C – 11.2°C
Distance from shore
1.0 km – 10.0 km

Sources: GEBCO seafloor grid · NASA JPL MUR sea temperature · PacIOOS coastline distance

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Source records

This activity is assembled from 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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