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Monterey Bay

CRC-11845 – Residency

21st sighting in Monterey Bay
Fluke of CRC-11845
CRC-11845 Confirmed in the catalog @7223
May 22 – Jun 18, 2021 · Monterey Bay

Monterey Bay · May – Jun 2021

98 m
Deepest dive
4:10
Longest dive
36
Dives
Sightings
4
Days between first and last sighting
27

Dive stats modelled within real depth limits — not measured

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SightingSeafloorSea tempDeepest dive (modelled)
May 22, 202171 m12.2°C47 m
May 23, 20211,434 m11.1°C98 m
Jun 4, 202148 m14.0°C22 m
Jun 18, 2021209 m15.1°C35 m

Seafloor and sea temperature measured · ✳ dives modelled

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Deepest dive against the seafloor, per sighting

Seafloor · measured Deepest dive · modelled
May 22, 2021 — seafloor 71 m (measured), deepest dive 47 m (modelled)May 22May 23, 2021 — seafloor 1,434 m (measured), deepest dive 98 m (modelled)May 23Jun 4, 2021 — seafloor 48 m (measured), deepest dive 22 m (modelled)Jun 4Jun 18, 2021 — seafloor 209 m (measured), deepest dive 35 m (modelled)Jun 18

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

Dives

98 m
Deepest dive
4:10
Longest dive
36
Dives
21 m
Avg dive depth
4
Sightings
27
Days first → last

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Dive profile

modelled
05010098 mstartdive sequence (illustrative)

Depth shaped by the seafloor limit here (1,434 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 · May 23, 2021

measured
Seafloor depth
1,434 m
Sea-surface temperature
11.1°C
Distance from shore
23.0 km

Across the residency · 4 sightings

measured
Seafloor depth
48 m – 1,434 m
Sea-surface temperature
11.1°C – 15.1°C
Distance from shore
2.0 km – 23.0 km

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

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Source records

This activity is assembled from 4 catalogued encounters on Happywhale.

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