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Monterey Bay

CRC-15589 – Residency

41st sighting in Monterey Bay
Fluke of CRC-15589
CRC-15589 Confirmed in the catalog @692
Oct 1 – Dec 10, 2023 · Monterey Bay

Monterey Bay · Oct – Dec 2023

114 m
Deepest dive
4:59
Longest dive
78
Dives
Sightings
9
Days between first and last sighting
70

Dive stats modelled within real depth limits — not measured

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SightingSeafloorSea tempDeepest dive (modelled)
Oct 1, 202336 m16.3°C29 m
Oct 5, 202369 m17.1°C42 m
Oct 6, 202366 m16.9°C54 m
Oct 17, 2023124 m16.1°C67 m
Oct 22, 202364 m16.4°C52 m
Oct 27, 202354 m14.9°C34 m
Nov 18, 2023464 m15.2°C114 m
Nov 20, 202366 m15.5°C29 m
Dec 10, 2023235 m13.8°C35 m

Seafloor and sea temperature measured · ✳ dives modelled

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Deepest dive against the seafloor, per sighting

Seafloor · measured Deepest dive · modelled
Oct 1, 2023 — seafloor 36 m (measured), deepest dive 29 m (modelled)Oct 1Oct 5, 2023 — seafloor 69 m (measured), deepest dive 42 m (modelled)Oct 5Oct 6, 2023 — seafloor 66 m (measured), deepest dive 54 m (modelled)Oct 6Oct 17, 2023 — seafloor 124 m (measured), deepest dive 67 m (modelled)Oct 17Oct 22, 2023 — seafloor 64 m (measured), deepest dive 52 m (modelled)Oct 22Oct 27, 2023 — seafloor 54 m (measured), deepest dive 34 m (modelled)Oct 27Nov 18, 2023 — seafloor 464 m (measured), deepest dive 114 m (modelled)Nov 18Nov 20, 2023 — seafloor 66 m (measured), deepest dive 29 m (modelled)Nov 20Dec 10, 2023 — seafloor 235 m (measured), deepest dive 35 m (modelled)Dec 10

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

Dives

114 m
Deepest dive
4:59
Longest dive
78
Dives
20 m
Avg dive depth
9
Sightings
70
Days first → last

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Dive profile

modelled
075150114 mstartdive sequence (illustrative)

Depth shaped by the seafloor limit here (464 m) and the published dive-behaviour distribution. Modelled, not measured.

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Place

Where this happened · Nov 18, 2023

measured
Seafloor depth
464 m
Sea-surface temperature
15.2°C
Distance from shore
10.0 km

Across the residency · 9 sightings

measured
Seafloor depth
36 m – 464 m
Sea-surface temperature
13.8°C – 17.1°C
Distance from shore
3.0 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 9 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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