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Monterey Bay

Bam Bam – Residency

9th sighting in Monterey Bay
Fluke of Bam Bam
Bam Bam Confirmed in the catalog @47273
Sep 27 – Oct 18, 2020 · Monterey Bay

Monterey Bay · Sep – Oct 2020

143 m
Deepest dive
5:00
Longest dive
96
Dives
Sightings
9
Days between first and last sighting
21
Deepest dive on record
143 m · this residency

Dive stats modelled within real depth limits — not measured

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SightingSeafloorSea tempDeepest dive (modelled)
Sep 27, 202094 m—77 m
Sep 29, 2020134 m—85 m
Oct 2, 2020491 m—82 m
Oct 3, 2020233 m—35 m
Oct 7, 202097 m—74 m
Oct 8, 202081 m—63 m
Oct 10, 2020238 m—143 m
Oct 15, 202028 m—25 m
Oct 18, 202078 m—48 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 27, 2020 — seafloor 94 m (measured), deepest dive 77 m (modelled)Sep 27Sep 29, 2020 — seafloor 134 m (measured), deepest dive 85 m (modelled)Sep 29Oct 2, 2020 — seafloor 491 m (measured), deepest dive 82 m (modelled)Oct 2Oct 3, 2020 — seafloor 233 m (measured), deepest dive 35 m (modelled)Oct 3Oct 7, 2020 — seafloor 97 m (measured), deepest dive 74 m (modelled)Oct 7Oct 8, 2020 — seafloor 81 m (measured), deepest dive 63 m (modelled)Oct 8Oct 10, 2020 — seafloor 238 m (measured), deepest dive 143 m (modelled)Oct 10Oct 15, 2020 — seafloor 28 m (measured), deepest dive 25 m (modelled)Oct 15Oct 18, 2020 — seafloor 78 m (measured), deepest dive 48 m (modelled)Oct 18

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

Dives

143 m
Deepest dive
5:00
Longest dive
96
Dives
26 m
Avg dive depth
9
Sightings
21
Days first → last

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Dive profile

modelled
075150143 mstartdive sequence (illustrative)

Depth shaped by the seafloor limit here (238 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 10, 2020

measured
Seafloor depth
238 m
Sea-surface temperature
—
Distance from shore
14.0 km

Across the residency · 9 sightings

measured
Seafloor depth
28 m – 491 m
Sea-surface temperature
—
Distance from shore
2.0 km – 14.0 km

Sources: GEBCO seafloor grid · PacIOOS coastline distance

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Source records

This activity is assembled from 9 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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