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Monterey Bay

Fran - † – Residency

158th sighting in Monterey Bay
Fluke of Fran - †
Fran - † Confirmed in the catalog @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

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SightingSeafloorSea tempDeepest dive (modelled)
Jun 17, 202284 m11.9°C49 m
Jun 18, 2022117 m11.2°C70 m
Jun 20, 2022140 m11.7°C111 m
Jun 22, 2022591 m11.7°C67 m
Jun 24, 2022105 m13.3°C44 m
Jun 26, 202267 m13.3°C60 m
Jul 9, 202276 m14.3°C47 m
Jul 10, 2022199 m14.1°C56 m
Jul 11, 202292 m14.1°C83 m
Jul 22, 202261 m15.3°C33 m
Jul 23, 2022110 m15.0°C76 m
Jul 25, 2022102 m15.0°C85 m
Jul 26, 2022202 m14.2°C74 m
Jul 30, 2022105 m14.5°C43 m
Jul 31, 2022104 m15.5°C60 m
Aug 4, 202282 m15.8°C52 m
Aug 28, 2022-22 m15.0°C—

Seafloor and sea temperature measured · ✳ dives modelled

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Deepest dive against the seafloor, per sighting

Seafloor · measured Deepest dive · modelled
Jun 17, 2022 — seafloor 84 m (measured), deepest dive 49 m (modelled)Jun 17Jun 18, 2022 — seafloor 117 m (measured), deepest dive 70 m (modelled)Jun 20, 2022 — seafloor 140 m (measured), deepest dive 111 m (modelled)Jun 22, 2022 — seafloor 591 m (measured), deepest dive 67 m (modelled)Jun 22Jun 24, 2022 — seafloor 105 m (measured), deepest dive 44 m (modelled)Jun 26, 2022 — seafloor 67 m (measured), deepest dive 60 m (modelled)Jul 9, 2022 — seafloor 76 m (measured), deepest dive 47 m (modelled)Jul 9Jul 10, 2022 — seafloor 199 m (measured), deepest dive 56 m (modelled)Jul 11, 2022 — seafloor 92 m (measured), deepest dive 83 m (modelled)Jul 22, 2022 — seafloor 61 m (measured), deepest dive 33 m (modelled)Jul 22Jul 23, 2022 — seafloor 110 m (measured), deepest dive 76 m (modelled)Jul 25, 2022 — seafloor 102 m (measured), deepest dive 85 m (modelled)Jul 26, 2022 — seafloor 202 m (measured), deepest dive 74 m (modelled)Jul 26Jul 30, 2022 — seafloor 105 m (measured), deepest dive 43 m (modelled)Jul 31, 2022 — seafloor 104 m (measured), deepest dive 60 m (modelled)Aug 4, 2022 — seafloor 82 m (measured), deepest dive 52 m (modelled)Aug 4Aug 28, 2022 — seafloor -22 m (measured), deepest dive — (modelled)

Depth 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

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Dive profile

modelled
075150111 mstartdive sequence (illustrative)

Depth shaped by the seafloor limit here (140 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 · 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

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Source records

This activity is assembled from 17 catalogued encounters on Happywhale.

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