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Monterey Bay

Bergie Bits – Residency

5th sighting in Monterey Bay
Fluke of Bergie Bits
Bergie Bits Confirmed in the catalog @59950
May 7 – Jul 11, 2021 · Monterey Bay

Monterey Bay · May – Jul 2021

70 m
Deepest dive
2:39
Longest dive
51
Dives
Sightings
5
Days between first and last sighting
65

Dive stats modelled within real depth limits — not measured

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SightingSeafloorSea tempDeepest dive (modelled)
May 7, 202178 m11.3°C41 m
May 9, 2021536 m11.2°C70 m
May 16, 202158 m11.9°C49 m
May 17, 2021105 m11.9°C57 m
Jul 11, 202188 m15.7°C60 m

Seafloor and sea temperature measured · ✳ dives modelled

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Deepest dive against the seafloor, per sighting

Seafloor · measured Deepest dive · modelled
May 7, 2021 — seafloor 78 m (measured), deepest dive 41 m (modelled)May 7May 9, 2021 — seafloor 536 m (measured), deepest dive 70 m (modelled)May 9May 16, 2021 — seafloor 58 m (measured), deepest dive 49 m (modelled)May 16May 17, 2021 — seafloor 105 m (measured), deepest dive 57 m (modelled)May 17Jul 11, 2021 — seafloor 88 m (measured), deepest dive 60 m (modelled)Jul 11

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

Dives

70 m
Deepest dive
2:39
Longest dive
51
Dives
24 m
Avg dive depth
5
Sightings
65
Days first → last

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Dive profile

modelled
05010070 mstartdive sequence (illustrative)

Depth shaped by the seafloor limit here (536 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 · May 9, 2021

measured
Seafloor depth
536 m
Sea-surface temperature
11.2°C
Distance from shore
14.0 km

Across the residency · 5 sightings

measured
Seafloor depth
58 m – 536 m
Sea-surface temperature
11.2°C – 15.7°C
Distance from shore
1.0 km – 14.0 km

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

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Source records

This activity is assembled from 5 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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