Ziggurat – Residency
39th sighting in Monterey Bay
Ziggurat @63
May 28 – Sep 16, 2022 · Monterey Bay
Summer in the Bay
Four months of familiar waters, the same currents calling me back again and again.
116 m
Deepest dive
4:41
Longest dive
101
Dives
- Sightings
- 9
- Days between first and last sighting
- 111
Dive stats modelled within real depth limits — not measured
Get actual dive data with Risa Deep →| Sighting | Seafloor | Sea temp | Deepest dive (modelled) |
|---|---|---|---|
| May 28, 2022 | 68 m | 11.9°C | 53 m |
| May 30, 2022 | 85 m | 11.7°C | 62 m |
| Jul 3, 2022 | 567 m | 12.8°C | 116 m |
| Jul 4, 2022 | 164 m | 13.2°C | 40 m |
| Jul 5, 2022 | 51 m | 13.9°C | 46 m |
| Jul 9, 2022 | 95 m | 14.3°C | 53 m |
| Jul 12, 2022 | 317 m | 15.1°C | 91 m |
| Jul 13, 2022 | 53 m | 14.8°C | 32 m |
| Sep 16, 2022 | 79 m | 15.5°C | 33 m |
Seafloor and sea temperature measured · ✳ dives modelled
Deepest dive against the seafloor, per sighting
Seafloor · measured Deepest dive · modelledDepth runs down from the surface. The modelled dive never passes the measured seafloor at that sighting.
Dives
116 m
Deepest dive
4:41
Longest dive
101
Dives
24 m
Avg dive depth
9
Sightings
111
Days first → last
Dive metrics are modelled within real depth limits — not measured
Get actual dive data with Risa Deep →Dive profile
modelledDepth shaped by the seafloor limit here (567 m) and the published dive-behaviour distribution. Modelled, not measured.
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Where this happened · Jul 3, 2022
measured- Seafloor depth
- 567 m
- Sea-surface temperature
- 12.8°C
- Distance from shore
- 16.0 km
Across the residency · 9 sightings
measured- Seafloor depth
- 51 m – 567 m
- Sea-surface temperature
- 11.7°C – 15.5°C
- Distance from shore
- 3.0 km – 16.0 km
Sources: GEBCO seafloor grid · NASA JPL MUR sea temperature · PacIOOS coastline distance
Source records
This activity is assembled from 9 catalogued encounters on Happywhale.