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Monterey Bay

CRC-17209 – Residency

3rd sighting in Monterey Bay
Fluke of CRC-17209
CRC-17209 Confirmed in the catalog @5221
Oct 23 – 25, 2024 · Monterey Bay

Monterey Bay · Oct 2024

56 m
Deepest dive
2:31
Longest dive
24
Dives
Sightings
3
Days between first and last sighting
2

Dive stats modelled within real depth limits — not measured

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SightingSeafloorSea tempDeepest dive (modelled)
Oct 23, 202473 m—24 m
Oct 23, 202476 m—39 m
Oct 25, 202487 m—56 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 23, 2024 — seafloor 73 m (measured), deepest dive 24 m (modelled)Oct 23Oct 23, 2024 — seafloor 76 m (measured), deepest dive 39 m (modelled)Oct 23Oct 25, 2024 — seafloor 87 m (measured), deepest dive 56 m (modelled)Oct 25

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

Dives

56 m
Deepest dive
2:31
Longest dive
24
Dives
16 m
Avg dive depth
3
Sightings
2
Days first → last

Dive metrics are modelled within real depth limits — not measured

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Dive profile

modelled
05010056 mstartdive sequence (illustrative)

Depth shaped by the seafloor limit here (87 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 25, 2024

measured
Seafloor depth
87 m
Sea-surface temperature
—
Distance from shore
6.0 km

Across the residency · 3 sightings

measured
Seafloor depth
73 m – 87 m
Sea-surface temperature
—
Distance from shore
6.0 km

Sources: GEBCO seafloor grid · PacIOOS coastline distance

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Source records

This activity is assembled from 3 catalogued encounters on Happywhale.

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