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Monterey Bay

Lexus – Residency

76th sighting in Monterey Bay
Fluke of Lexus
Lexus Confirmed in the catalog @509
May 29 – Aug 13, 2021 · Monterey Bay

Summer in the Bay

Three months of perfect feeding, same waters calling me back again.

92 m
Deepest dive
3:21
Longest dive
66
Dives
Sightings
6
Days between first and last sighting
76

Dive stats modelled within real depth limits — not measured

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SightingSeafloorSea tempDeepest dive (modelled)
May 29, 2021228 m13.4°C92 m
May 30, 2021173 m13.4°C84 m
May 31, 202158 m13.1°C52 m
Jul 3, 202129 m16.1°C24 m
Jul 15, 202171 m14.3°C43 m
Aug 13, 202172 m16.3°C63 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 29, 2021 — seafloor 228 m (measured), deepest dive 92 m (modelled)May 29May 30, 2021 — seafloor 173 m (measured), deepest dive 84 m (modelled)May 30May 31, 2021 — seafloor 58 m (measured), deepest dive 52 m (modelled)May 31Jul 3, 2021 — seafloor 29 m (measured), deepest dive 24 m (modelled)Jul 3Jul 15, 2021 — seafloor 71 m (measured), deepest dive 43 m (modelled)Jul 15Aug 13, 2021 — seafloor 72 m (measured), deepest dive 63 m (modelled)Aug 13

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

Dives

92 m
Deepest dive
3:21
Longest dive
66
Dives
27 m
Avg dive depth
6
Sightings
76
Days first → last

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Dive profile

modelled
05010092 mstartdive sequence (illustrative)

Depth shaped by the seafloor limit here (228 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 29, 2021

measured
Seafloor depth
228 m
Sea-surface temperature
13.4°C
Distance from shore
4.0 km

Across the residency · 6 sightings

measured
Seafloor depth
29 m – 228 m
Sea-surface temperature
13.1°C – 16.3°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 6 catalogued encounters on Happywhale.

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