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Monterey Bay

Talisman – Residency

49th sighting in Monterey Bay
Fluke of Talisman
Talisman Confirmed in the catalog @7265
May 15 – Jul 13, 2024 · Monterey Bay

Monterey Bay · May – Jul 2024

58 m
Deepest dive
2:13
Longest dive
61
Dives
Sightings
4
Days between first and last sighting
59

Dive stats modelled within real depth limits — not measured

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SightingSeafloorSea tempDeepest dive (modelled)
May 15, 202479 m13.0°C58 m
May 27, 202481 m13.5°C36 m
Jul 12, 202473 m15.2°C37 m
Jul 13, 2024254 m15.4°C49 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 15, 2024 — seafloor 79 m (measured), deepest dive 58 m (modelled)May 15May 27, 2024 — seafloor 81 m (measured), deepest dive 36 m (modelled)May 27Jul 12, 2024 — seafloor 73 m (measured), deepest dive 37 m (modelled)Jul 12Jul 13, 2024 — seafloor 254 m (measured), deepest dive 49 m (modelled)Jul 13

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

Dives

58 m
Deepest dive
2:13
Longest dive
61
Dives
19 m
Avg dive depth
4
Sightings
59
Days first → last

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Dive profile

modelled
05010058 mstartdive sequence (illustrative)

Depth shaped by the seafloor limit here (79 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 15, 2024

measured
Seafloor depth
79 m
Sea-surface temperature
13.0°C
Distance from shore
11.0 km

Across the residency · 4 sightings

measured
Seafloor depth
73 m – 254 m
Sea-surface temperature
13.0°C – 15.4°C
Distance from shore
4.0 km – 11.0 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.

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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