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Monterey Bay

Southern Cross – Residency

14th sighting in Monterey Bay
Fluke of Southern Cross
Southern Cross Confirmed in the catalog @7054
Mar 18 – Sep 10, 2018 · Monterey Bay

Monterey Bay · Mar – Sep 2018

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Deepest dive
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Longest dive
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Dives
Sightings
14
Days between first and last sighting
176

Dive stats modelled within real depth limits — not measured

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SightingSeafloorSea tempDeepest dive (modelled)
Mar 18, 201861 m——
Mar 25, 2018126 m——
Mar 27, 201856 m——
Mar 28, 201873 m——
Mar 29, 201867 m——
Mar 30, 2018256 m——
Mar 31, 201855 m——
Apr 1, 2018132 m——
Jun 4, 201873 m——
Jul 5, 201877 m——
Jul 15, 2018110 m——
Jul 21, 201872 m——
Aug 9, 2018169 m——
Sep 10, 2018254 m——

Seafloor and sea temperature measured · ✳ dives modelled

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Deepest dive against the seafloor, per sighting

Seafloor · measured Deepest dive · modelled
Mar 18, 2018 — seafloor 61 m (measured), deepest dive — (modelled)Mar 18Mar 25, 2018 — seafloor 126 m (measured), deepest dive — (modelled)Mar 27, 2018 — seafloor 56 m (measured), deepest dive — (modelled)Mar 28, 2018 — seafloor 73 m (measured), deepest dive — (modelled)Mar 28Mar 29, 2018 — seafloor 67 m (measured), deepest dive — (modelled)Mar 30, 2018 — seafloor 256 m (measured), deepest dive — (modelled)Mar 31, 2018 — seafloor 55 m (measured), deepest dive — (modelled)Mar 31Apr 1, 2018 — seafloor 132 m (measured), deepest dive — (modelled)Jun 4, 2018 — seafloor 73 m (measured), deepest dive — (modelled)Jul 5, 2018 — seafloor 77 m (measured), deepest dive — (modelled)Jul 5Jul 15, 2018 — seafloor 110 m (measured), deepest dive — (modelled)Jul 21, 2018 — seafloor 72 m (measured), deepest dive — (modelled)Aug 9, 2018 — seafloor 169 m (measured), deepest dive — (modelled)Aug 9Sep 10, 2018 — seafloor 254 m (measured), deepest dive — (modelled)

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

Dives

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Deepest dive
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Longest dive
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Dives
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Avg dive depth
14
Sightings
176
Days first → last

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Dive profile

modelled
02550startdive sequence (illustrative)

Modelled from the published dive-behaviour distribution. 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 · Sep 10, 2018

measured
Seafloor depth
254 m
Sea-surface temperature
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Distance from shore
4.0 km

Across the residency · 14 sightings

measured
Seafloor depth
55 m – 256 m
Sea-surface temperature
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Distance from shore
2.0 km – 9.0 km

Sources: GEBCO seafloor grid · PacIOOS coastline distance

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Source records

This activity is assembled from 14 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.

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