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Monterey Bay

Bottlenose – Residency

43rd sighting in Monterey Bay
Fluke of Bottlenose
Bottlenose Confirmed in the catalog @488
May 6 – Sep 25, 2021 · Monterey Bay

Monterey Bay · May – Sep 2021

127 m
Deepest dive
4:51
Longest dive
204
Dives
Sightings
17
Days between first and last sighting
142

Dive stats modelled within real depth limits — not measured

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SightingSeafloorSea tempDeepest dive (modelled)
May 6, 2021537 m11.6°C88 m
May 9, 202171 m11.7°C42 m
May 11, 202153 m11.9°C38 m
May 14, 2021423 m12.2°C123 m
May 29, 202191 m13.5°C65 m
Jun 1, 202164 m13.1°C37 m
Jun 2, 2021567 m13.8°C47 m
Jun 3, 202159 m13.8°C35 m
Jun 8, 202195 m13.1°C78 m
Jul 14, 202182 m14.0°C29 m
Jul 29, 202198 m15.6°C54 m
Aug 10, 2021557 m15.5°C123 m
Aug 23, 20211,307 m15.7°C127 m
Aug 24, 202194 m15.9°C77 m
Aug 28, 202171 m16.7°C52 m
Sep 19, 202147 m14.9°C43 m
Sep 25, 202165 m16.2°C47 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 6, 2021 — seafloor 537 m (measured), deepest dive 88 m (modelled)May 6May 9, 2021 — seafloor 71 m (measured), deepest dive 42 m (modelled)May 11, 2021 — seafloor 53 m (measured), deepest dive 38 m (modelled)May 14, 2021 — seafloor 423 m (measured), deepest dive 123 m (modelled)May 14May 29, 2021 — seafloor 91 m (measured), deepest dive 65 m (modelled)Jun 1, 2021 — seafloor 64 m (measured), deepest dive 37 m (modelled)Jun 2, 2021 — seafloor 567 m (measured), deepest dive 47 m (modelled)Jun 2Jun 3, 2021 — seafloor 59 m (measured), deepest dive 35 m (modelled)Jun 8, 2021 — seafloor 95 m (measured), deepest dive 78 m (modelled)Jul 14, 2021 — seafloor 82 m (measured), deepest dive 29 m (modelled)Jul 14Jul 29, 2021 — seafloor 98 m (measured), deepest dive 54 m (modelled)Aug 10, 2021 — seafloor 557 m (measured), deepest dive 123 m (modelled)Aug 23, 2021 — seafloor 1,307 m (measured), deepest dive 127 m (modelled)Aug 23Aug 24, 2021 — seafloor 94 m (measured), deepest dive 77 m (modelled)Aug 28, 2021 — seafloor 71 m (measured), deepest dive 52 m (modelled)Sep 19, 2021 — seafloor 47 m (measured), deepest dive 43 m (modelled)Sep 19Sep 25, 2021 — seafloor 65 m (measured), deepest dive 47 m (modelled)

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

Dives

127 m
Deepest dive
4:51
Longest dive
204
Dives
26 m
Avg dive depth
17
Sightings
142
Days first → last

Dive metrics are modelled within real depth limits — not measured

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Dive profile

modelled
075150127 mstartdive sequence (illustrative)

Depth shaped by the seafloor limit here (1,307 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 · Aug 23, 2021

measured
Seafloor depth
1,307 m
Sea-surface temperature
15.7°C
Distance from shore
9.0 km

Across the residency · 17 sightings

measured
Seafloor depth
47 m – 1,307 m
Sea-surface temperature
11.6°C – 16.7°C
Distance from shore
2.0 km – 23.0 km

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

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Source records

This activity is assembled from 17 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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