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Monterey Bay

Bottlenose – Residency

18th sighting in Monterey Bay
Fluke of Bottlenose
Bottlenose Confirmed in the catalog @488
May 4 – Sep 24, 2019 · Monterey Bay

Monterey Bay · May – Sep 2019

95 m
Deepest dive
4:22
Longest dive
82
Dives
Sightings
9
Days between first and last sighting
143

Dive stats modelled within real depth limits — not measured

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SightingSeafloorSea tempDeepest dive (modelled)
May 4, 2019254 m14.2°C95 m
May 8, 2019110 m14.6°C51 m
May 9, 2019139 m14.1°C47 m
Jul 24, 201956 m15.1°C51 m
Aug 1, 201994 m14.7°C34 m
Aug 3, 201983 m14.5°C33 m
Aug 20, 2019102 m16.1°C78 m
Sep 6, 201933 m15.8°C30 m
Sep 24, 201949 m16.5°C29 m

Seafloor and sea temperature measured · ✳ dives modelled

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Deepest dive against the seafloor, per sighting

Seafloor · measured Deepest dive · modelled
May 4, 2019 — seafloor 254 m (measured), deepest dive 95 m (modelled)May 4May 8, 2019 — seafloor 110 m (measured), deepest dive 51 m (modelled)May 8May 9, 2019 — seafloor 139 m (measured), deepest dive 47 m (modelled)May 9Jul 24, 2019 — seafloor 56 m (measured), deepest dive 51 m (modelled)Jul 24Aug 1, 2019 — seafloor 94 m (measured), deepest dive 34 m (modelled)Aug 1Aug 3, 2019 — seafloor 83 m (measured), deepest dive 33 m (modelled)Aug 3Aug 20, 2019 — seafloor 102 m (measured), deepest dive 78 m (modelled)Aug 20Sep 6, 2019 — seafloor 33 m (measured), deepest dive 30 m (modelled)Sep 6Sep 24, 2019 — seafloor 49 m (measured), deepest dive 29 m (modelled)Sep 24

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

Dives

95 m
Deepest dive
4:22
Longest dive
82
Dives
23 m
Avg dive depth
9
Sightings
143
Days first → last

Dive metrics are modelled within real depth limits — not measured

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Dive profile

modelled
05010095 mstartdive sequence (illustrative)

Depth shaped by the seafloor limit here (254 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 4, 2019

measured
Seafloor depth
254 m
Sea-surface temperature
14.2°C
Distance from shore
4.0 km

Across the residency · 9 sightings

measured
Seafloor depth
33 m – 254 m
Sea-surface temperature
14.1°C – 16.5°C
Distance from shore
2.0 km – 8.0 km

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

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Source records

This activity is assembled from 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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