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Monterey Bay

CRC-18587 – Residency

58th sighting in Monterey Bay
Fluke of CRC-18587
CRC-18587 Confirmed in the catalog @52707
Oct 5 – Nov 6, 2023 · Monterey Bay

Monterey Bay · Oct – Nov 2023

204 m
Deepest dive
6:47
Longest dive
67
Dives
Sightings
9
Days between first and last sighting
32

Dive stats modelled within real depth limits — not measured

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SightingSeafloorSea tempDeepest dive (modelled)
Oct 5, 2023177 m17.5°C18 m
Oct 9, 2023496 m16.6°C75 m
Oct 9, 2023199 m16.5°C75 m
Oct 12, 202368 m15.7°C58 m
Oct 15, 2023666 m15.9°C134 m
Oct 18, 2023188 m15.7°C124 m
Oct 25, 2023239 m15.5°C184 m
Oct 28, 2023391 m14.8°C52 m
Nov 6, 2023567 m14.4°C204 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 5, 2023 — seafloor 177 m (measured), deepest dive 18 m (modelled)Oct 5Oct 9, 2023 — seafloor 496 m (measured), deepest dive 75 m (modelled)Oct 9Oct 9, 2023 — seafloor 199 m (measured), deepest dive 75 m (modelled)Oct 9Oct 12, 2023 — seafloor 68 m (measured), deepest dive 58 m (modelled)Oct 12Oct 15, 2023 — seafloor 666 m (measured), deepest dive 134 m (modelled)Oct 15Oct 18, 2023 — seafloor 188 m (measured), deepest dive 124 m (modelled)Oct 18Oct 25, 2023 — seafloor 239 m (measured), deepest dive 184 m (modelled)Oct 25Oct 28, 2023 — seafloor 391 m (measured), deepest dive 52 m (modelled)Oct 28Nov 6, 2023 — seafloor 567 m (measured), deepest dive 204 m (modelled)Nov 6

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

Dives

204 m
Deepest dive
6:47
Longest dive
67
Dives
37 m
Avg dive depth
9
Sightings
32
Days first → last

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Dive profile

modelled
0125250204 mstartdive sequence (illustrative)

Depth shaped by the seafloor limit here (567 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 · Nov 6, 2023

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

Across the residency · 9 sightings

measured
Seafloor depth
68 m – 666 m
Sea-surface temperature
14.4°C – 17.5°C
Distance from shore
3.0 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 9 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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