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Monterey Bay

Fade – Residency

26th sighting in Monterey Bay
Fluke of Fade
Fade Confirmed in the catalog @586
Jul 21 – Nov 4, 2019 · Monterey Bay

Monterey Bay · Jul – Nov 2019

180 m
Deepest dive
10:02
Longest dive
161
Dives
Sightings
13
Days between first and last sighting
106

Dive stats modelled within real depth limits — not measured

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SightingSeafloorSea tempDeepest dive (modelled)
Jul 21, 2019550 m14.3°C106 m
Aug 21, 201999 m15.8°C74 m
Aug 23, 201983 m15.3°C59 m
Aug 24, 201963 m15.5°C45 m
Aug 25, 201995 m15.7°C50 m
Aug 27, 201985 m15.8°C49 m
Aug 28, 2019179 m16.1°C75 m
Aug 30, 201998 m16.2°C74 m
Sep 5, 201991 m15.5°C68 m
Oct 12, 20191,082 m14.7°C180 m
Oct 22, 201994 m14.6°C39 m
Oct 22, 201967 m14.6°C49 m
Nov 4, 2019325 m14.1°C42 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 21, 2019 — seafloor 550 m (measured), deepest dive 106 m (modelled)Jul 21Aug 21, 2019 — seafloor 99 m (measured), deepest dive 74 m (modelled)Aug 23, 2019 — seafloor 83 m (measured), deepest dive 59 m (modelled)Aug 24, 2019 — seafloor 63 m (measured), deepest dive 45 m (modelled)Aug 24Aug 25, 2019 — seafloor 95 m (measured), deepest dive 50 m (modelled)Aug 27, 2019 — seafloor 85 m (measured), deepest dive 49 m (modelled)Aug 28, 2019 — seafloor 179 m (measured), deepest dive 75 m (modelled)Aug 28Aug 30, 2019 — seafloor 98 m (measured), deepest dive 74 m (modelled)Sep 5, 2019 — seafloor 91 m (measured), deepest dive 68 m (modelled)Oct 12, 2019 — seafloor 1,082 m (measured), deepest dive 180 m (modelled)Oct 12Oct 22, 2019 — seafloor 94 m (measured), deepest dive 39 m (modelled)Oct 22, 2019 — seafloor 67 m (measured), deepest dive 49 m (modelled)Nov 4, 2019 — seafloor 325 m (measured), deepest dive 42 m (modelled)Nov 4

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

Dives

180 m
Deepest dive
10:02
Longest dive
161
Dives
25 m
Avg dive depth
13
Sightings
106
Days first → last

Dive metrics are modelled within real depth limits — not measured

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Dive profile

modelled
0100200180 mstartdive sequence (illustrative)

Depth shaped by the seafloor limit here (1,082 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 · Oct 12, 2019

measured
Seafloor depth
1,082 m
Sea-surface temperature
14.7°C
Distance from shore
15.0 km

Across the residency · 13 sightings

measured
Seafloor depth
63 m – 1,082 m
Sea-surface temperature
14.1°C – 16.2°C
Distance from shore
2.0 km – 15.0 km

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

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Source records

This activity is assembled from 13 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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