Activity map — real sighting points on an OpenStreetMap basemap © OpenStreetMap contributors
Banderas Bay

Heartsling – Residency

9th sighting in Banderas Bay
Fluke of Heartsling
Heartsling Confirmed in the catalog @6630
Feb 20 – 27, 2020 · Banderas Bay

Banderas Bay · Feb 2020

160 m
Deepest dive
5:07
Longest dive
42
Dives
Sightings
3
Days between first and last sighting
7

Dive stats modelled within real depth limits — not measured

Get actual dive data with Risa Deep →
SightingSeafloorSea tempDeepest dive (modelled)
Feb 20, 2020299 m24.2°C160 m
Feb 23, 202065 m24.8°C50 m
Feb 27, 202065 m23.8°C41 m

Seafloor and sea temperature measured · ✳ dives modelled

Activity map — real sighting points on an OpenStreetMap basemap © OpenStreetMap contributors

Deepest dive against the seafloor, per sighting

Seafloor · measured Deepest dive · modelled
Feb 20, 2020 — seafloor 299 m (measured), deepest dive 160 m (modelled)Feb 20Feb 23, 2020 — seafloor 65 m (measured), deepest dive 50 m (modelled)Feb 23Feb 27, 2020 — seafloor 65 m (measured), deepest dive 41 m (modelled)Feb 27

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

Dives

160 m
Deepest dive
5:07
Longest dive
42
Dives
29 m
Avg dive depth
3
Sightings
7
Days first → last

Dive metrics are modelled within real depth limits — not measured

Get actual dive data with Risa Deep →

Dive profile

modelled
0100200160 mstartdive sequence (illustrative)

Depth shaped by the seafloor limit here (299 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.

Unlock with Risa Deep

Place

Where this happened · Feb 20, 2020

measured
Seafloor depth
299 m
Sea-surface temperature
24.2°C
Distance from shore
2.0 km

Across the residency · 3 sightings

measured
Seafloor depth
65 m – 299 m
Sea-surface temperature
23.8°C – 24.8°C
Distance from shore
2.0 km – 5.0 km

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

Activity map — real sighting points on an OpenStreetMap basemap © OpenStreetMap contributors

Source records

This activity is assembled from 3 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).

Happywhale runs on donations: support Happywhale →

Breach is an independent project. It is not affiliated with, nor endorsed by, Happywhale or GBIF.