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Monterey Bay

Right Eye – Residency

29th sighting in Monterey Bay
Fluke of Right Eye
Right Eye Confirmed in the catalog @606
Jul 9 – Aug 29, 2021 · Monterey Bay

Summer Sanctuary

The bay holds me like an old friend, its familiar waters calling me back again.

67 m
Deepest dive
2:12
Longest dive
41
Dives
Sightings
4
Days between first and last sighting
51

Dive stats modelled within real depth limits — not measured

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SightingSeafloorSea tempDeepest dive (modelled)
Jul 9, 202170 m16.4°C23 m
Jul 10, 202139 m—35 m
Jul 13, 202182 m14.5°C67 m
Aug 29, 2021177 m17.2°C53 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 9, 2021 — seafloor 70 m (measured), deepest dive 23 m (modelled)Jul 9Jul 10, 2021 — seafloor 39 m (measured), deepest dive 35 m (modelled)Jul 10Jul 13, 2021 — seafloor 82 m (measured), deepest dive 67 m (modelled)Jul 13Aug 29, 2021 — seafloor 177 m (measured), deepest dive 53 m (modelled)Aug 29

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

Dives

67 m
Deepest dive
2:12
Longest dive
41
Dives
25 m
Avg dive depth
4
Sightings
51
Days first → last

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Dive profile

modelled
05010067 mstartdive sequence (illustrative)

Depth shaped by the seafloor limit here (82 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 13, 2021

measured
Seafloor depth
82 m
Sea-surface temperature
14.5°C
Distance from shore
12.0 km

Across the residency · 4 sightings

measured
Seafloor depth
39 m – 177 m
Sea-surface temperature
14.5°C – 17.2°C
Distance from shore
1.0 km – 12.0 km

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

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Source records

This activity is assembled from 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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