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Monterey Bay

Moonlight – Residency

10th sighting in Monterey Bay
Fluke of Moonlight
Moonlight Confirmed in the catalog @55024
Sep 29 – Nov 11, 2020 · Monterey Bay

Monterey Bay · Sep – Nov 2020

109 m
Deepest dive
4:00
Longest dive
108
Dives
Sightings
10
Days between first and last sighting
44

Dive stats modelled within real depth limits — not measured

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SightingSeafloorSea tempDeepest dive (modelled)
Sep 29, 2020567 m—108 m
Oct 12, 202094 m—85 m
Oct 27, 2020345 m—67 m
Nov 5, 2020119 m—24 m
Nov 9, 2020480 m—80 m
Nov 9, 2020473 m—106 m
Nov 9, 2020399 m—81 m
Nov 10, 2020545 m—109 m
Nov 10, 2020450 m—22 m
Nov 11, 2020441 m—66 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 29, 2020 — seafloor 567 m (measured), deepest dive 108 m (modelled)Sep 29Oct 12, 2020 — seafloor 94 m (measured), deepest dive 85 m (modelled)Oct 12Oct 27, 2020 — seafloor 345 m (measured), deepest dive 67 m (modelled)Oct 27Nov 5, 2020 — seafloor 119 m (measured), deepest dive 24 m (modelled)Nov 5Nov 9, 2020 — seafloor 480 m (measured), deepest dive 80 m (modelled)Nov 9Nov 9, 2020 — seafloor 473 m (measured), deepest dive 106 m (modelled)Nov 9Nov 9, 2020 — seafloor 399 m (measured), deepest dive 81 m (modelled)Nov 9Nov 10, 2020 — seafloor 545 m (measured), deepest dive 109 m (modelled)Nov 10Nov 10, 2020 — seafloor 450 m (measured), deepest dive 22 m (modelled)Nov 10Nov 11, 2020 — seafloor 441 m (measured), deepest dive 66 m (modelled)Nov 11

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

Dives

109 m
Deepest dive
4:00
Longest dive
108
Dives
30 m
Avg dive depth
10
Sightings
44
Days first → last

Dive metrics are modelled within real depth limits — not measured

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Dive profile

modelled
075150109 mstartdive sequence (illustrative)

Depth shaped by the seafloor limit here (545 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, 2020

measured
Seafloor depth
545 m
Sea-surface temperature
—
Distance from shore
10.0 km

Across the residency · 10 sightings

measured
Seafloor depth
94 m – 567 m
Sea-surface temperature
—
Distance from shore
7.0 km – 16.0 km

Sources: GEBCO seafloor grid · PacIOOS coastline distance

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Source records

This activity is assembled from 10 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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