Fran - † – Residency
158th sighting in Monterey BayFran - † @7
Jun 17 – Aug 28, 2022 · Monterey Bay
Summer in the Bay
The same waters keep calling me back, rich and familiar as an old song.
111 m
Deepest dive
3:32
Longest dive
182
Dives
- Sightings
- 17
- Days between first and last sighting
- 72
Dive stats modelled within real depth limits — not measured
Get actual dive data with Risa Deep →| Sighting | Seafloor | Sea temp | Deepest dive (modelled) |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 17, 2022 | 84 m | 11.9°C | 49 m |
| Jun 18, 2022 | 117 m | 11.2°C | 70 m |
| Jun 20, 2022 | 140 m | 11.7°C | 111 m |
| Jun 22, 2022 | 591 m | 11.7°C | 67 m |
| Jun 24, 2022 | 105 m | 13.3°C | 44 m |
| Jun 26, 2022 | 67 m | 13.3°C | 60 m |
| Jul 9, 2022 | 76 m | 14.3°C | 47 m |
| Jul 10, 2022 | 199 m | 14.1°C | 56 m |
| Jul 11, 2022 | 92 m | 14.1°C | 83 m |
| Jul 22, 2022 | 61 m | 15.3°C | 33 m |
| Jul 23, 2022 | 110 m | 15.0°C | 76 m |
| Jul 25, 2022 | 102 m | 15.0°C | 85 m |
| Jul 26, 2022 | 202 m | 14.2°C | 74 m |
| Jul 30, 2022 | 105 m | 14.5°C | 43 m |
| Jul 31, 2022 | 104 m | 15.5°C | 60 m |
| Aug 4, 2022 | 82 m | 15.8°C | 52 m |
| Aug 28, 2022 | -22 m | 15.0°C | — |
Seafloor and sea temperature measured · ✳ dives modelled
Deepest dive against the seafloor, per sighting
Seafloor · measured Deepest dive · modelledDepth runs down from the surface. The modelled dive never passes the measured seafloor at that sighting.
Dives
111 m
Deepest dive
3:32
Longest dive
182
Dives
26 m
Avg dive depth
17
Sightings
72
Days first → last
Dive metrics are modelled within real depth limits — not measured
Get actual dive data with Risa Deep →Dive profile
modelledDepth shaped by the seafloor limit here (140 m) and the published dive-behaviour distribution. Modelled, not measured.
Deep Effort Score
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Where this happened · Jun 20, 2022
measured- Seafloor depth
- 140 m
- Sea-surface temperature
- 11.7°C
- Distance from shore
- 7.0 km
Across the residency · 17 sightings
measured- Seafloor depth
- -22 m – 591 m
- Sea-surface temperature
- 11.2°C – 15.8°C
- Distance from shore
- 2.0 km – 14.0 km
Sources: GEBCO seafloor grid · NASA JPL MUR sea temperature · PacIOOS coastline distance
Source records
This activity is assembled from 17 catalogued encounters on Happywhale.