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Monterey Bay

Gulper – Residency

12th sighting in Monterey Bay
Fluke of Gulper
Gulper Confirmed in the catalog @7103
Jul 22 – Sep 21, 2018 · Monterey Bay

Monterey Bay · Jul – Sep 2018

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Deepest dive
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Longest dive
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Dives
Sightings
11
Days between first and last sighting
61

Dive stats modelled within real depth limits — not measured

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SightingSeafloorSea tempDeepest dive (modelled)
Jul 22, 2018109 m17.0°C—
Jul 24, 201866 m16.9°C—
Jul 28, 201866 m15.0°C—
Aug 1, 201817 m13.8°C—
Aug 23, 201873 m15.6°C—
Aug 24, 201872 m16.0°C—
Aug 26, 201891 m15.9°C—
Sep 18, 2018253 m12.7°C—
Sep 19, 201891 m12.6°C—
Sep 20, 2018254 m12.7°C—
Sep 21, 201835 m12.8°C—

Seafloor and sea temperature measured · ✳ dives modelled

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Deepest dive against the seafloor, per sighting

Seafloor · measured Deepest dive · modelled
Jul 22, 2018 — seafloor 109 m (measured), deepest dive — (modelled)Jul 22Jul 24, 2018 — seafloor 66 m (measured), deepest dive — (modelled)Jul 24Jul 28, 2018 — seafloor 66 m (measured), deepest dive — (modelled)Jul 28Aug 1, 2018 — seafloor 17 m (measured), deepest dive — (modelled)Aug 1Aug 23, 2018 — seafloor 73 m (measured), deepest dive — (modelled)Aug 23Aug 24, 2018 — seafloor 72 m (measured), deepest dive — (modelled)Aug 24Aug 26, 2018 — seafloor 91 m (measured), deepest dive — (modelled)Aug 26Sep 18, 2018 — seafloor 253 m (measured), deepest dive — (modelled)Sep 18Sep 19, 2018 — seafloor 91 m (measured), deepest dive — (modelled)Sep 19Sep 20, 2018 — seafloor 254 m (measured), deepest dive — (modelled)Sep 20Sep 21, 2018 — seafloor 35 m (measured), deepest dive — (modelled)Sep 21

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
11
Sightings
61
Days first → last

Dive metrics are modelled within real depth limits — not measured

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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 21, 2018

measured
Seafloor depth
35 m
Sea-surface temperature
12.8°C
Distance from shore
2.0 km

Across the residency · 11 sightings

measured
Seafloor depth
17 m – 254 m
Sea-surface temperature
12.6°C – 17.0°C
Distance from shore
1.0 km – 8.0 km

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

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Source records

This activity is assembled from 11 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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