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Monterey Bay

Snowy Owl – Residency

115th sighting in Monterey Bay
Fluke of Snowy Owl
Snowy Owl Confirmed in the catalog @479
Jul 9 – Nov 15, 2020 · Monterey Bay

Monterey Bay · Jul – Nov 2020

350 m
Deepest dive
9:31
Longest dive
555
Dives
Sightings
46
Days between first and last sighting
129
Deepest dive on record
350 m · this residency

Dive stats modelled within real depth limits — not measured

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SightingSeafloorSea tempDeepest dive (modelled)
Jul 9, 202077 m14.7°C51 m
Jul 10, 202063 m12.9°C16 m
Jul 11, 202073 m12.2°C39 m
Jul 12, 202065 m13.6°C49 m
Jul 13, 202053 m13.6°C43 m
Jul 14, 202053 m13.9°C48 m
Jul 17, 2020105 m14.8°C59 m
Jul 18, 2020132 m14.6°C19 m
Jul 21, 2020125 m15.5°C108 m
Jul 23, 2020574 m16.1°C65 m
Jul 27, 2020135 m16.5°C48 m
Jul 28, 202083 m16.5°C34 m
Jul 29, 2020567 m16.7°C91 m
Jul 30, 202078 m16.0°C71 m
Jul 31, 202083 m15.3°C67 m
Aug 1, 202081 m15.3°C34 m
Aug 2, 202074 m15.0°C67 m
Aug 3, 202071 m15.2°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
Jul 9, 2020 — seafloor 77 m (measured), deepest dive 51 m (modelled)Jul 9Jul 10, 2020 — seafloor 63 m (measured), deepest dive 16 m (modelled)Jul 11, 2020 — seafloor 73 m (measured), deepest dive 39 m (modelled)Jul 12, 2020 — seafloor 65 m (measured), deepest dive 49 m (modelled)Jul 13, 2020 — seafloor 53 m (measured), deepest dive 43 m (modelled)Jul 14, 2020 — seafloor 53 m (measured), deepest dive 48 m (modelled)Jul 17, 2020 — seafloor 105 m (measured), deepest dive 59 m (modelled)Jul 18, 2020 — seafloor 132 m (measured), deepest dive 19 m (modelled)Jul 21, 2020 — seafloor 125 m (measured), deepest dive 108 m (modelled)Jul 21Jul 23, 2020 — seafloor 574 m (measured), deepest dive 65 m (modelled)Jul 27, 2020 — seafloor 135 m (measured), deepest dive 48 m (modelled)Jul 28, 2020 — seafloor 83 m (measured), deepest dive 34 m (modelled)Jul 29, 2020 — seafloor 567 m (measured), deepest dive 91 m (modelled)Jul 30, 2020 — seafloor 78 m (measured), deepest dive 71 m (modelled)Jul 31, 2020 — seafloor 83 m (measured), deepest dive 67 m (modelled)Aug 1, 2020 — seafloor 81 m (measured), deepest dive 34 m (modelled)Aug 2, 2020 — seafloor 74 m (measured), deepest dive 67 m (modelled)Aug 2Aug 3, 2020 — seafloor 71 m (measured), deepest dive 54 m (modelled)Aug 4, 2020 — seafloor 59 m (measured), deepest dive 54 m (modelled)Aug 23, 2020 — seafloor 370 m (measured), deepest dive 114 m (modelled)Sep 2, 2020 — seafloor 111 m (measured), deepest dive 69 m (modelled)Sep 23, 2020 — seafloor 567 m (measured), deepest dive 68 m (modelled)Sep 24, 2020 — seafloor 94 m (measured), deepest dive 76 m (modelled)Oct 2, 2020 — seafloor 124 m (measured), deepest dive 84 m (modelled)Oct 3, 2020 — seafloor 567 m (measured), deepest dive 188 m (modelled)Oct 3Oct 4, 2020 — seafloor 108 m (measured), deepest dive 74 m (modelled)Oct 8, 2020 — seafloor 84 m (measured), deepest dive 77 m (modelled)Oct 9, 2020 — seafloor 413 m (measured), deepest dive 241 m (modelled)Oct 12, 2020 — seafloor 95 m (measured), deepest dive 66 m (modelled)Oct 13, 2020 — seafloor 109 m (measured), deepest dive 35 m (modelled)Oct 15, 2020 — seafloor 75 m (measured), deepest dive 36 m (modelled)Oct 17, 2020 — seafloor 135 m (measured), deepest dive 70 m (modelled)Oct 18, 2020 — seafloor 69 m (measured), deepest dive 54 m (modelled)Oct 18Oct 19, 2020 — seafloor 66 m (measured), deepest dive 50 m (modelled)Oct 20, 2020 — seafloor 55 m (measured), deepest dive 34 m (modelled)Oct 22, 2020 — seafloor 46 m (measured), deepest dive 19 m (modelled)Oct 23, 2020 — seafloor 57 m (measured), deepest dive 41 m (modelled)Oct 24, 2020 — seafloor 53 m (measured), deepest dive 43 m (modelled)Oct 25, 2020 — seafloor 95 m (measured), deepest dive 80 m (modelled)Oct 26, 2020 — seafloor 62 m (measured), deepest dive 52 m (modelled)Oct 27, 2020 — seafloor 300 m (measured), deepest dive 48 m (modelled)Oct 27Oct 28, 2020 — seafloor 598 m (measured), deepest dive 82 m (modelled)Oct 30, 2020 — seafloor 495 m (measured), deepest dive 67 m (modelled)Oct 31, 2020 — seafloor 628 m (measured), deepest dive 142 m (modelled)Nov 12, 2020 — seafloor 614 m (measured), deepest dive 53 m (modelled)Nov 15, 2020 — seafloor 452 m (measured), deepest dive 350 m (modelled)

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

Dives

350 m
Deepest dive
9:31
Longest dive
555
Dives
26 m
Avg dive depth
46
Sightings
129
Days first → last

Dive metrics are modelled within real depth limits — not measured

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Dive profile

modelled
0200400350 mstartdive sequence (illustrative)

Depth shaped by the seafloor limit here (452 m) and the published dive-behaviour distribution. Modelled, not measured.

Deep Effort Score

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Place

Where this happened · Nov 15, 2020

measured
Seafloor depth
452 m
Sea-surface temperature
12.8°C
Distance from shore
9.0 km

Across the residency · 46 sightings

measured
Seafloor depth
46 m – 628 m
Sea-surface temperature
12.2°C – 16.8°C
Distance from shore
2.0 km – 17.0 km

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

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Source records

This activity is assembled from 46 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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