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Monterey Bay

Bottlenose – Residency

83rd sighting in Monterey Bay
Fluke of Bottlenose
Bottlenose Confirmed in the catalog @488
Mar 14 – Sep 18, 2024 · Monterey Bay

Monterey Bay · Mar – Sep 2024

118 m
Deepest dive
4:32
Longest dive
56
Dives
Sightings
7
Days between first and last sighting
188

Dive stats modelled within real depth limits — not measured

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SightingSeafloorSea tempDeepest dive (modelled)
Mar 14, 2024499 m13.7°C60 m
Mar 22, 2024107 m14.0°C92 m
Apr 12, 202459 m13.6°C49 m
Apr 24, 2024622 m13.8°C92 m
May 19, 2024174 m12.9°C118 m
Jul 16, 2024474 m15.4°C30 m
Sep 18, 202478 m15.0°C49 m

Seafloor and sea temperature measured · ✳ dives modelled

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Deepest dive against the seafloor, per sighting

Seafloor · measured Deepest dive · modelled
Mar 14, 2024 — seafloor 499 m (measured), deepest dive 60 m (modelled)Mar 14Mar 22, 2024 — seafloor 107 m (measured), deepest dive 92 m (modelled)Mar 22Apr 12, 2024 — seafloor 59 m (measured), deepest dive 49 m (modelled)Apr 12Apr 24, 2024 — seafloor 622 m (measured), deepest dive 92 m (modelled)Apr 24May 19, 2024 — seafloor 174 m (measured), deepest dive 118 m (modelled)May 19Jul 16, 2024 — seafloor 474 m (measured), deepest dive 30 m (modelled)Jul 16Sep 18, 2024 — seafloor 78 m (measured), deepest dive 49 m (modelled)Sep 18

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

Dives

118 m
Deepest dive
4:32
Longest dive
56
Dives
29 m
Avg dive depth
7
Sightings
188
Days first → last

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Dive profile

modelled
075150118 mstartdive sequence (illustrative)

Depth shaped by the seafloor limit here (174 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 19, 2024

measured
Seafloor depth
174 m
Sea-surface temperature
12.9°C
Distance from shore
2.0 km

Across the residency · 7 sightings

measured
Seafloor depth
59 m – 622 m
Sea-surface temperature
12.9°C – 15.4°C
Distance from shore
2.0 km – 12.0 km

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

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Source records

This activity is assembled from 7 catalogued encounters on Happywhale.

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