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Monterey Bay

Stitches – Residency

92nd sighting in Monterey Bay
Fluke of Stitches
Stitches Confirmed in the catalog @5
May 25 – Oct 21, 2024 · Monterey Bay

Monterey Summer

The bay welcomed me back like an old friend this season.

221 m
Deepest dive
7:27
Longest dive
75
Dives
Sightings
6
Days between first and last sighting
149
Deepest dive on record
221 m · this residency

Dive stats modelled within real depth limits — not measured

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SightingSeafloorSea tempDeepest dive (modelled)
May 25, 202447 m12.2°C24 m
Aug 18, 2024117 m13.7°C103 m
Aug 20, 2024264 m14.5°C34 m
Aug 20, 2024378 m14.8°C221 m
Oct 16, 202466 m15.5°C45 m
Oct 21, 202472 m14.5°C34 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 25, 2024 — seafloor 47 m (measured), deepest dive 24 m (modelled)May 25Aug 18, 2024 — seafloor 117 m (measured), deepest dive 103 m (modelled)Aug 18Aug 20, 2024 — seafloor 264 m (measured), deepest dive 34 m (modelled)Aug 20Aug 20, 2024 — seafloor 378 m (measured), deepest dive 221 m (modelled)Aug 20Oct 16, 2024 — seafloor 66 m (measured), deepest dive 45 m (modelled)Oct 16Oct 21, 2024 — seafloor 72 m (measured), deepest dive 34 m (modelled)Oct 21

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

Dives

221 m
Deepest dive
7:27
Longest dive
75
Dives
23 m
Avg dive depth
6
Sightings
149
Days first → last

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Dive profile

modelled
0125250221 mstartdive sequence (illustrative)

Depth shaped by the seafloor limit here (378 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 20, 2024

measured
Seafloor depth
378 m
Sea-surface temperature
14.8°C
Distance from shore
7.0 km

Across the residency · 6 sightings

measured
Seafloor depth
47 m – 378 m
Sea-surface temperature
12.2°C – 15.5°C
Distance from shore
2.0 km – 9.0 km

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

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Source records

This activity is assembled from 6 catalogued encounters on Happywhale.

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