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Monterey Bay

Beulah Balbricker – Residency

8th sighting in Monterey Bay
Fluke of Beulah Balbricker
Beulah Balbricker Confirmed in the catalog @537
Nov 7 – 10, 2018 · Monterey Bay

Monterey Bay · Nov 2018

408 m
Deepest dive
13:37
Longest dive
36
Dives
Sightings
2
Days between first and last sighting
3
Deepest dive on record
408 m · this residency

Dive stats modelled within real depth limits — not measured

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SightingSeafloorSea tempDeepest dive (modelled)
Nov 7, 201816 m14.0°C13 m
Nov 10, 20182,450 m14.4°C408 m

Seafloor and sea temperature measured · ✳ dives modelled

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Deepest dive against the seafloor, per sighting

Seafloor · measured Deepest dive · modelled
Nov 7, 2018 — seafloor 16 m (measured), deepest dive 13 m (modelled)Nov 7Nov 10, 2018 — seafloor 2,450 m (measured), deepest dive 408 m (modelled)Nov 10

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

Dives

408 m
Deepest dive
13:37
Longest dive
36
Dives
19 m
Avg dive depth
2
Sightings
3
Days first → last

Dive metrics are modelled within real depth limits — not measured

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Dive profile

modelled
0225450408 mstartdive sequence (illustrative)

Depth shaped by the seafloor limit here (2,450 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 10, 2018

measured
Seafloor depth
2,450 m
Sea-surface temperature
14.4°C
Distance from shore
20.0 km

Across the residency · 2 sightings

measured
Seafloor depth
16 m – 2,450 m
Sea-surface temperature
14.0°C – 14.4°C
Distance from shore
3.0 km – 20.0 km

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

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Source records

This activity is assembled from 2 catalogued encounters on Happywhale.

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