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Banderas Bay

The White Whale – Residency

3rd sighting in Banderas Bay
Fluke of The White Whale
The White Whale Confirmed in the catalog @47389
Nov 28 – Dec 8, 2021 · Banderas Bay

Banderas Bay · Nov – Dec 2021

99 m
Deepest dive
4:05
Longest dive
41
Dives
Sightings
2
Days between first and last sighting
11

Dive stats modelled within real depth limits — not measured

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SightingSeafloorSea tempDeepest dive (modelled)
Nov 28, 2021175 m—99 m
Dec 8, 202141 m—32 m

Seafloor and sea temperature measured · ✳ dives modelled

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Deepest dive against the seafloor, per sighting

Seafloor · measured Deepest dive · modelled
Nov 28, 2021 — seafloor 175 m (measured), deepest dive 99 m (modelled)Nov 28Dec 8, 2021 — seafloor 41 m (measured), deepest dive 32 m (modelled)Dec 8

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

Dives

99 m
Deepest dive
4:05
Longest dive
41
Dives
20 m
Avg dive depth
2
Sightings
11
Days first → last

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Dive profile

modelled
05010099 mstartdive sequence (illustrative)

Depth shaped by the seafloor limit here (175 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 · Nov 28, 2021

measured
Seafloor depth
175 m
Sea-surface temperature
—
Distance from shore
11.0 km

Across the residency · 2 sightings

measured
Seafloor depth
41 m – 175 m
Sea-surface temperature
—
Distance from shore
1.0 km – 11.0 km

Sources: GEBCO seafloor grid · PacIOOS coastline distance

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Source records

This activity is assembled from 2 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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