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Monterey Bay

CRC-15589 – Residency

13th sighting in Monterey Bay
Fluke of CRC-15589
CRC-15589 Confirmed in the catalog @692
Sep 27, 2019 – Jan 3, 2020 · Monterey Bay

Monterey Bay · Sep 2019 – Jan 2020

294 m
Deepest dive
9:33
Longest dive
44
Dives
Sightings
4
Days between first and last sighting
98

Dive stats modelled within real depth limits — not measured

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SightingSeafloorSea tempDeepest dive (modelled)
Sep 27, 2019744 m16.0°C182 m
Nov 17, 2019214 m14.0°C36 m
Nov 23, 2019362 m13.7°C294 m
Jan 3, 2020957 m13.6°C66 m

Seafloor and sea temperature measured · ✳ dives modelled

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Deepest dive against the seafloor, per sighting

Seafloor · measured Deepest dive · modelled
Sep 27, 2019 — seafloor 744 m (measured), deepest dive 182 m (modelled)Sep 27Nov 17, 2019 — seafloor 214 m (measured), deepest dive 36 m (modelled)Nov 17Nov 23, 2019 — seafloor 362 m (measured), deepest dive 294 m (modelled)Nov 23Jan 3, 2020 — seafloor 957 m (measured), deepest dive 66 m (modelled)Jan 3

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

Dives

294 m
Deepest dive
9:33
Longest dive
44
Dives
36 m
Avg dive depth
4
Sightings
98
Days first → last

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Dive profile

modelled
0150300294 mstartdive sequence (illustrative)

Depth shaped by the seafloor limit here (362 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 · Nov 23, 2019

measured
Seafloor depth
362 m
Sea-surface temperature
13.7°C
Distance from shore
8.0 km

Across the residency · 4 sightings

measured
Seafloor depth
214 m – 957 m
Sea-surface temperature
13.6°C – 16.0°C
Distance from shore
8.0 km – 16.0 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.

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