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Monterey Bay

2020-2021 calf of Motitas – Residency

24th sighting in Monterey Bay
Fluke of 2020-2021 calf of Motitas
2020-2021 calf of Motitas Confirmed in the catalog @61170
May 16 – Nov 2, 2021 · Monterey Bay

Monterey Bay · May – Nov 2021

388 m
Deepest dive
18:02
Longest dive
232
Dives
Sightings
25
Days between first and last sighting
170
Deepest dive on record
388 m · this residency

Dive stats modelled within real depth limits — not measured

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SightingSeafloorSea tempDeepest dive (modelled)
May 16, 2021300 m—59 m
May 22, 2021522 m—62 m
May 23, 202159 m—39 m
May 26, 202162 m—57 m
Jun 3, 202180 m—41 m
Jun 3, 202154 m—47 m
Jun 5, 2021558 m—388 m
Jun 6, 202166 m—55 m
Jun 9, 202171 m—24 m
Jun 9, 2021567 m—66 m
Jul 4, 202174 m—68 m
Jul 4, 2021104 m—74 m
Jul 13, 202180 m—61 m
Jul 13, 2021567 m—212 m
Jul 15, 202157 m—29 m
Jul 20, 202191 m—61 m
Jul 26, 202196 m—40 m
Jul 28, 2021770 m—66 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 16, 2021 — seafloor 300 m (measured), deepest dive 59 m (modelled)May 16May 22, 2021 — seafloor 522 m (measured), deepest dive 62 m (modelled)May 23, 2021 — seafloor 59 m (measured), deepest dive 39 m (modelled)May 26, 2021 — seafloor 62 m (measured), deepest dive 57 m (modelled)Jun 3, 2021 — seafloor 80 m (measured), deepest dive 41 m (modelled)Jun 3, 2021 — seafloor 54 m (measured), deepest dive 47 m (modelled)Jun 3Jun 5, 2021 — seafloor 558 m (measured), deepest dive 388 m (modelled)Jun 6, 2021 — seafloor 66 m (measured), deepest dive 55 m (modelled)Jun 9, 2021 — seafloor 71 m (measured), deepest dive 24 m (modelled)Jun 9, 2021 — seafloor 567 m (measured), deepest dive 66 m (modelled)Jul 4, 2021 — seafloor 74 m (measured), deepest dive 68 m (modelled)Jul 4Jul 4, 2021 — seafloor 104 m (measured), deepest dive 74 m (modelled)Jul 13, 2021 — seafloor 80 m (measured), deepest dive 61 m (modelled)Jul 13, 2021 — seafloor 567 m (measured), deepest dive 212 m (modelled)Jul 15, 2021 — seafloor 57 m (measured), deepest dive 29 m (modelled)Jul 20, 2021 — seafloor 91 m (measured), deepest dive 61 m (modelled)Jul 20Jul 26, 2021 — seafloor 96 m (measured), deepest dive 40 m (modelled)Jul 28, 2021 — seafloor 770 m (measured), deepest dive 66 m (modelled)Aug 15, 2021 — seafloor 78 m (measured), deepest dive 38 m (modelled)Aug 17, 2021 — seafloor 158 m (measured), deepest dive 105 m (modelled)Aug 19, 2021 — seafloor 152 m (measured), deepest dive 38 m (modelled)Aug 19Aug 20, 2021 — seafloor 90 m (measured), deepest dive 20 m (modelled)Aug 28, 2021 — seafloor 71 m (measured), deepest dive 63 m (modelled)Nov 2, 2021 — seafloor 62 m (measured), deepest dive 27 m (modelled)Nov 2, 2021 — seafloor 60 m (measured), deepest dive 50 m (modelled)

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

Dives

388 m
Deepest dive
18:02
Longest dive
232
Dives
25 m
Avg dive depth
25
Sightings
170
Days first → last

Dive metrics are modelled within real depth limits — not measured

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Dive profile

modelled
0200400388 mstartdive sequence (illustrative)

Depth shaped by the seafloor limit here (558 m) and the published dive-behaviour distribution. Modelled, not measured.

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Place

Where this happened · Jun 5, 2021

measured
Seafloor depth
558 m
Sea-surface temperature
—
Distance from shore
10.0 km

Across the residency · 25 sightings

measured
Seafloor depth
54 m – 770 m
Sea-surface temperature
—
Distance from shore
2.0 km – 17.0 km

Sources: GEBCO seafloor grid · PacIOOS coastline distance

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Source records

This activity is assembled from 25 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.

The photographs and fluke identifications behind every sighting are the work of the contributing observers — the citizen scientists, naturalists and operators who logged them, each named in the underlying GBIF occurrence record. Every activity links out to its source encounters on Happywhale. Basemaps © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL).

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