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Monterey Bay

Gaia – Residency

5th sighting in Monterey Bay
Fluke of Gaia
Gaia Confirmed in the catalog @5549
Oct 31 – Nov 1, 2023 · Monterey Bay

Monterey Bay · Oct – Nov 2023

288 m
Deepest dive
7:00
Longest dive
37
Dives
Sightings
4
Days between first and last sighting
1

Dive stats modelled within real depth limits — not measured

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SightingSeafloorSea tempDeepest dive (modelled)
Oct 31, 2023106 m—78 m
Nov 1, 2023567 m—288 m
Nov 1, 202331 m—24 m
Nov 1, 2023567 m—67 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 31, 2023 — seafloor 106 m (measured), deepest dive 78 m (modelled)Oct 31Nov 1, 2023 — seafloor 567 m (measured), deepest dive 288 m (modelled)Nov 1Nov 1, 2023 — seafloor 31 m (measured), deepest dive 24 m (modelled)Nov 1Nov 1, 2023 — seafloor 567 m (measured), deepest dive 67 m (modelled)Nov 1

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

Dives

288 m
Deepest dive
7:00
Longest dive
37
Dives
24 m
Avg dive depth
4
Sightings
1
Days first → last

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Dive profile

modelled
0150300288 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 1, 2023

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

Across the residency · 4 sightings

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

Sources: GEBCO seafloor grid · PacIOOS coastline distance

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Source records

This activity is assembled from 4 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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