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Monterey Bay

Moonlight – Residency

14th sighting in Monterey Bay
Fluke of Moonlight
Moonlight Confirmed in the catalog @55024
Jul 25 – 31, 2022 · Monterey Bay

Monterey Bay · Jul 2022

91 m
Deepest dive
3:20
Longest dive
42
Dives
Sightings
3
Days between first and last sighting
6

Dive stats modelled within real depth limits — not measured

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SightingSeafloorSea tempDeepest dive (modelled)
Jul 25, 2022761 m—81 m
Jul 29, 2022120 m—91 m
Jul 31, 2022111 m—72 m

Seafloor and sea temperature measured · ✳ dives modelled

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Deepest dive against the seafloor, per sighting

Seafloor · measured Deepest dive · modelled
Jul 25, 2022 — seafloor 761 m (measured), deepest dive 81 m (modelled)Jul 25Jul 29, 2022 — seafloor 120 m (measured), deepest dive 91 m (modelled)Jul 29Jul 31, 2022 — seafloor 111 m (measured), deepest dive 72 m (modelled)Jul 31

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

Dives

91 m
Deepest dive
3:20
Longest dive
42
Dives
31 m
Avg dive depth
3
Sightings
6
Days first → last

Dive metrics are modelled within real depth limits — not measured

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Dive profile

modelled
05010091 mstartdive sequence (illustrative)

Depth shaped by the seafloor limit here (120 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 · Jul 29, 2022

measured
Seafloor depth
120 m
Sea-surface temperature
—
Distance from shore
14.0 km

Across the residency · 3 sightings

measured
Seafloor depth
111 m – 761 m
Sea-surface temperature
—
Distance from shore
5.0 km – 14.0 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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