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Monterey Bay

CRC-10591 – Residency

28th sighting in Monterey Bay
Fluke of CRC-10591
CRC-10591 Confirmed in the catalog @539
Sep 23 – 30, 2022 · Monterey Bay

September in the Bay

The krill were thick and the water felt like home.

82 m
Deepest dive
3:18
Longest dive
92
Dives
Sightings
6
Days between first and last sighting
7

Dive stats modelled within real depth limits — not measured

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SightingSeafloorSea tempDeepest dive (modelled)
Sep 23, 202284 m16.5°C39 m
Sep 24, 2022105 m16.4°C63 m
Sep 25, 2022191 m16.2°C63 m
Sep 26, 202296 m16.3°C36 m
Sep 28, 202283 m16.0°C72 m
Sep 30, 2022567 m16.0°C82 m

Seafloor and sea temperature measured · ✳ dives modelled

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Deepest dive against the seafloor, per sighting

Seafloor · measured Deepest dive · modelled
Sep 23, 2022 — seafloor 84 m (measured), deepest dive 39 m (modelled)Sep 23Sep 24, 2022 — seafloor 105 m (measured), deepest dive 63 m (modelled)Sep 24Sep 25, 2022 — seafloor 191 m (measured), deepest dive 63 m (modelled)Sep 25Sep 26, 2022 — seafloor 96 m (measured), deepest dive 36 m (modelled)Sep 26Sep 28, 2022 — seafloor 83 m (measured), deepest dive 72 m (modelled)Sep 28Sep 30, 2022 — seafloor 567 m (measured), deepest dive 82 m (modelled)Sep 30

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

Dives

82 m
Deepest dive
3:18
Longest dive
92
Dives
21 m
Avg dive depth
6
Sightings
7
Days first → last

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Dive profile

modelled
05010082 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 · Sep 30, 2022

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

Across the residency · 6 sightings

measured
Seafloor depth
83 m – 567 m
Sea-surface temperature
16.0°C – 16.5°C
Distance from shore
3.0 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 6 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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