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Monterey Bay

Head Banger – Residency

25th sighting in Monterey Bay
Fluke of Head Banger
Head Banger Confirmed in the catalog @7153
Jun 27 – Sep 10, 2020 · Monterey Bay

Monterey Bay · Jun – Sep 2020

79 m
Deepest dive
3:08
Longest dive
34
Dives
Sightings
3
Days between first and last sighting
75

Dive stats modelled within real depth limits — not measured

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SightingSeafloorSea tempDeepest dive (modelled)
Jun 27, 202083 m14.4°C71 m
Sep 10, 202089 m17.4°C79 m
Sep 10, 2020288 m17.4°C67 m

Seafloor and sea temperature measured · ✳ dives modelled

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Deepest dive against the seafloor, per sighting

Seafloor · measured Deepest dive · modelled
Jun 27, 2020 — seafloor 83 m (measured), deepest dive 71 m (modelled)Jun 27Sep 10, 2020 — seafloor 89 m (measured), deepest dive 79 m (modelled)Sep 10Sep 10, 2020 — seafloor 288 m (measured), deepest dive 67 m (modelled)Sep 10

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

Dives

79 m
Deepest dive
3:08
Longest dive
34
Dives
31 m
Avg dive depth
3
Sightings
75
Days first → last

Dive metrics are modelled within real depth limits — not measured

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Dive profile

modelled
05010079 mstartdive sequence (illustrative)

Depth shaped by the seafloor limit here (89 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 · Sep 10, 2020

measured
Seafloor depth
89 m
Sea-surface temperature
17.4°C
Distance from shore
14.0 km

Across the residency · 3 sightings

measured
Seafloor depth
83 m – 288 m
Sea-surface temperature
14.4°C – 17.4°C
Distance from shore
7.0 km – 15.0 km

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

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Source records

This activity is assembled from 3 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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