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Monterey Bay

CRC-15589 – Residency

19th sighting in Monterey Bay
Fluke of CRC-15589
CRC-15589 Confirmed in the catalog @692
Sep 27 – Oct 24, 2020 · Monterey Bay

Monterey Bay · Sep – Oct 2020

216 m
Deepest dive
5:46
Longest dive
94
Dives
Sightings
6
Days between first and last sighting
27

Dive stats modelled within real depth limits — not measured

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SightingSeafloorSea tempDeepest dive (modelled)
Sep 27, 202085 m15.9°C38 m
Oct 5, 2020436 m15.5°C216 m
Oct 7, 2020317 m15.7°C80 m
Oct 9, 2020249 m15.1°C63 m
Oct 12, 202092 m15.1°C75 m
Oct 24, 202082 m15.3°C68 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, 2020 — seafloor 85 m (measured), deepest dive 38 m (modelled)Sep 27Oct 5, 2020 — seafloor 436 m (measured), deepest dive 216 m (modelled)Oct 5Oct 7, 2020 — seafloor 317 m (measured), deepest dive 80 m (modelled)Oct 7Oct 9, 2020 — seafloor 249 m (measured), deepest dive 63 m (modelled)Oct 9Oct 12, 2020 — seafloor 92 m (measured), deepest dive 75 m (modelled)Oct 12Oct 24, 2020 — seafloor 82 m (measured), deepest dive 68 m (modelled)Oct 24

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

Dives

216 m
Deepest dive
5:46
Longest dive
94
Dives
28 m
Avg dive depth
6
Sightings
27
Days first → last

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Dive profile

modelled
0125250216 mstartdive sequence (illustrative)

Depth shaped by the seafloor limit here (436 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 · Oct 5, 2020

measured
Seafloor depth
436 m
Sea-surface temperature
15.5°C
Distance from shore
10.0 km

Across the residency · 6 sightings

measured
Seafloor depth
82 m – 436 m
Sea-surface temperature
15.1°C – 15.9°C
Distance from shore
8.0 km – 12.0 km

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

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Source records

This activity is assembled from 6 catalogued encounters on Happywhale.

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