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Monterey Bay

Fran - † – Residency

142nd sighting in Monterey Bay
Fluke of Fran - †
Fran - † Confirmed in the catalog @7
May 7 – Oct 16, 2021 · Monterey Bay

Bay of Returns

The old waters call me back again and again, deeper than memory.

196 m
Deepest dive
8:20
Longest dive
187
Dives
Sightings
17
Days between first and last sighting
162

Dive stats modelled within real depth limits — not measured

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SightingSeafloorSea tempDeepest dive (modelled)
May 7, 202152 m11.7°C40 m
Jun 1, 202178 m13.4°C44 m
Jun 27, 2021350 m14.4°C66 m
Jul 3, 2021111 m15.2°C46 m
Jul 4, 202193 m15.2°C73 m
Jul 5, 2021226 m15.0°C196 m
Jul 5, 2021208 m15.1°C79 m
Jul 7, 20211,039 m15.7°C117 m
Jul 22, 2021107 m14.6°C32 m
Aug 8, 202190 m16.3°C51 m
Aug 15, 2021567 m16.1°C48 m
Aug 16, 2021152 m16.1°C45 m
Sep 20, 2021188 m15.8°C119 m
Oct 4, 202144 m16.0°C32 m
Oct 9, 202179 m14.5°C72 m
Oct 15, 2021139 m13.5°C85 m
Oct 16, 2021100 m13.8°C75 m

Seafloor and sea temperature measured · ✳ dives modelled

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Deepest dive against the seafloor, per sighting

Seafloor · measured Deepest dive · modelled
May 7, 2021 — seafloor 52 m (measured), deepest dive 40 m (modelled)May 7Jun 1, 2021 — seafloor 78 m (measured), deepest dive 44 m (modelled)Jun 27, 2021 — seafloor 350 m (measured), deepest dive 66 m (modelled)Jul 3, 2021 — seafloor 111 m (measured), deepest dive 46 m (modelled)Jul 3Jul 4, 2021 — seafloor 93 m (measured), deepest dive 73 m (modelled)Jul 5, 2021 — seafloor 226 m (measured), deepest dive 196 m (modelled)Jul 5, 2021 — seafloor 208 m (measured), deepest dive 79 m (modelled)Jul 5Jul 7, 2021 — seafloor 1,039 m (measured), deepest dive 117 m (modelled)Jul 22, 2021 — seafloor 107 m (measured), deepest dive 32 m (modelled)Aug 8, 2021 — seafloor 90 m (measured), deepest dive 51 m (modelled)Aug 8Aug 15, 2021 — seafloor 567 m (measured), deepest dive 48 m (modelled)Aug 16, 2021 — seafloor 152 m (measured), deepest dive 45 m (modelled)Sep 20, 2021 — seafloor 188 m (measured), deepest dive 119 m (modelled)Sep 20Oct 4, 2021 — seafloor 44 m (measured), deepest dive 32 m (modelled)Oct 9, 2021 — seafloor 79 m (measured), deepest dive 72 m (modelled)Oct 15, 2021 — seafloor 139 m (measured), deepest dive 85 m (modelled)Oct 15Oct 16, 2021 — seafloor 100 m (measured), deepest dive 75 m (modelled)

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

Dives

196 m
Deepest dive
8:20
Longest dive
187
Dives
28 m
Avg dive depth
17
Sightings
162
Days first → last

Dive metrics are modelled within real depth limits — not measured

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Dive profile

modelled
0100200196 mstartdive sequence (illustrative)

Depth shaped by the seafloor limit here (226 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 · Jul 5, 2021

measured
Seafloor depth
226 m
Sea-surface temperature
15.0°C
Distance from shore
4.0 km

Across the residency · 17 sightings

measured
Seafloor depth
44 m – 1,039 m
Sea-surface temperature
11.7°C – 16.3°C
Distance from shore
2.0 km – 17.0 km

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

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Source records

This activity is assembled from 17 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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