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Monterey Bay

Right Eye – Residency

48th sighting in Monterey Bay
Fluke of Right Eye
Right Eye Confirmed in the catalog @606
Jul 20 – Oct 7, 2023 · Monterey Bay

Summer Station

The bay keeps calling me back, and I keep answering.

111 m
Deepest dive
3:36
Longest dive
213
Dives
Sightings
15
Days between first and last sighting
79

Dive stats modelled within real depth limits — not measured

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SightingSeafloorSea tempDeepest dive (modelled)
Jul 20, 202348 m16.2°C33 m
Jul 25, 2023100 m15.2°C43 m
Jul 27, 202355 m15.5°C45 m
Jul 28, 202381 m15.1°C71 m
Jul 31, 202375 m14.6°C66 m
Aug 28, 2023142 m17.7°C111 m
Aug 29, 2023104 m17.9°C93 m
Aug 30, 202386 m18.4°C47 m
Sep 7, 2023104 m16.4°C33 m
Sep 9, 202369 m16.5°C50 m
Sep 10, 202396 m16.1°C55 m
Sep 15, 202384 m16.5°C47 m
Sep 18, 202377 m16.6°C26 m
Sep 20, 202380 m16.7°C47 m
Oct 7, 202384 m17.3°C62 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 20, 2023 — seafloor 48 m (measured), deepest dive 33 m (modelled)Jul 20Jul 25, 2023 — seafloor 100 m (measured), deepest dive 43 m (modelled)Jul 27, 2023 — seafloor 55 m (measured), deepest dive 45 m (modelled)Jul 28, 2023 — seafloor 81 m (measured), deepest dive 71 m (modelled)Jul 28Jul 31, 2023 — seafloor 75 m (measured), deepest dive 66 m (modelled)Aug 28, 2023 — seafloor 142 m (measured), deepest dive 111 m (modelled)Aug 29, 2023 — seafloor 104 m (measured), deepest dive 93 m (modelled)Aug 29Aug 30, 2023 — seafloor 86 m (measured), deepest dive 47 m (modelled)Sep 7, 2023 — seafloor 104 m (measured), deepest dive 33 m (modelled)Sep 9, 2023 — seafloor 69 m (measured), deepest dive 50 m (modelled)Sep 9Sep 10, 2023 — seafloor 96 m (measured), deepest dive 55 m (modelled)Sep 15, 2023 — seafloor 84 m (measured), deepest dive 47 m (modelled)Sep 18, 2023 — seafloor 77 m (measured), deepest dive 26 m (modelled)Sep 18Sep 20, 2023 — seafloor 80 m (measured), deepest dive 47 m (modelled)Oct 7, 2023 — seafloor 84 m (measured), deepest dive 62 m (modelled)

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

Dives

111 m
Deepest dive
3:36
Longest dive
213
Dives
24 m
Avg dive depth
15
Sightings
79
Days first → last

Dive metrics are modelled within real depth limits — not measured

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Dive profile

modelled
075150111 mstartdive sequence (illustrative)

Depth shaped by the seafloor limit here (142 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 · Aug 28, 2023

measured
Seafloor depth
142 m
Sea-surface temperature
17.7°C
Distance from shore
12.0 km

Across the residency · 15 sightings

measured
Seafloor depth
48 m – 142 m
Sea-surface temperature
14.6°C – 18.4°C
Distance from shore
5.0 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 15 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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