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Monterey Bay

Stitches – Residency

75th sighting in Monterey Bay
Fluke of Stitches
Stitches Confirmed in the catalog @5
Oct 24 – Nov 2, 2019 · Monterey Bay

Monterey Bay · Oct – Nov 2019

96 m
Deepest dive
3:37
Longest dive
25
Dives
Sightings
3
Days between first and last sighting
9

Dive stats modelled within real depth limits — not measured

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SightingSeafloorSea tempDeepest dive (modelled)
Oct 24, 2019126 m14.3°C96 m
Nov 2, 2019567 m14.1°C50 m
Nov 2, 2019168 m14.4°C39 m

Seafloor and sea temperature measured · ✳ dives modelled

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Deepest dive against the seafloor, per sighting

Seafloor · measured Deepest dive · modelled
Oct 24, 2019 — seafloor 126 m (measured), deepest dive 96 m (modelled)Oct 24Nov 2, 2019 — seafloor 567 m (measured), deepest dive 50 m (modelled)Nov 2Nov 2, 2019 — seafloor 168 m (measured), deepest dive 39 m (modelled)Nov 2

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

Dives

96 m
Deepest dive
3:37
Longest dive
25
Dives
18 m
Avg dive depth
3
Sightings
9
Days first → last

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Dive profile

modelled
05010096 mstartdive sequence (illustrative)

Depth shaped by the seafloor limit here (126 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 · Oct 24, 2019

measured
Seafloor depth
126 m
Sea-surface temperature
14.3°C
Distance from shore
9.0 km

Across the residency · 3 sightings

measured
Seafloor depth
126 m – 567 m
Sea-surface temperature
14.1°C – 14.4°C
Distance from shore
6.0 km – 16.0 km

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

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Source records

This activity is assembled from 3 catalogued encounters on Happywhale.

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