Checkmarks – Residency
183rd sighting in Monterey Bay
Checkmarks @700
Mar 15 – 31, 2024 · Monterey Bay
March Monterey Meandering
The bay pulls me back like an old song, krill-thick waters singing spring.
101 m
Deepest dive
3:41
Longest dive
86
Dives
- Sightings
- 8
- Days between first and last sighting
- 16
Dive stats modelled within real depth limits — not measured
Get actual dive data with Risa Deep →| Sighting | Seafloor | Sea temp | Deepest dive (modelled) |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 15, 2024 | 785 m | 13.5°C | 56 m |
| Mar 18, 2024 | 653 m | 13.3°C | 81 m |
| Mar 20, 2024 | 96 m | 14.5°C | 71 m |
| Mar 21, 2024 | 630 m | 14.3°C | 101 m |
| Mar 22, 2024 | 601 m | 14.0°C | 48 m |
| Mar 26, 2024 | 54 m | 13.4°C | 24 m |
| Mar 26, 2024 | 109 m | 13.2°C | 95 m |
| Mar 31, 2024 | 68 m | 12.7°C | 60 m |
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
101 m
Deepest dive
3:41
Longest dive
86
Dives
25 m
Avg dive depth
8
Sightings
16
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 (630 m) and the published dive-behaviour distribution. Modelled, not measured.
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Where this happened · Mar 21, 2024
measured- Seafloor depth
- 630 m
- Sea-surface temperature
- 14.3°C
- Distance from shore
- 14.0 km
Across the residency · 8 sightings
measured- Seafloor depth
- 54 m – 785 m
- Sea-surface temperature
- 12.7°C – 14.5°C
- Distance from shore
- 4.0 km – 14.0 km
Sources: GEBCO seafloor grid · NASA JPL MUR sea temperature · PacIOOS coastline distance
Source records
This activity is assembled from 8 catalogued encounters on Happywhale.