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Monterey Bay

Talisman – Residency

15th sighting in Monterey Bay
Fluke of Talisman
Talisman Confirmed in the catalog @7265
Mar 12 – Jul 6, 2018 · Monterey Bay

Monterey Bay · Mar – Jul 2018

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Deepest dive
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Longest dive
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Dives
Sightings
9
Days between first and last sighting
116

Dive stats modelled within real depth limits — not measured

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SightingSeafloorSea tempDeepest dive (modelled)
Mar 12, 2018221 m12.0°C—
Jun 8, 201888 m12.4°C—
Jun 16, 201867 m13.0°C—
Jun 23, 2018451 m12.8°C—
Jun 30, 201872 m13.7°C—
Jul 1, 201867 m13.9°C—
Jul 2, 201861 m14.3°C—
Jul 4, 2018104 m15.0°C—
Jul 6, 2018262 m14.9°C—

Seafloor and sea temperature measured · ✳ dives modelled

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Deepest dive against the seafloor, per sighting

Seafloor · measured Deepest dive · modelled
Mar 12, 2018 — seafloor 221 m (measured), deepest dive — (modelled)Mar 12Jun 8, 2018 — seafloor 88 m (measured), deepest dive — (modelled)Jun 8Jun 16, 2018 — seafloor 67 m (measured), deepest dive — (modelled)Jun 16Jun 23, 2018 — seafloor 451 m (measured), deepest dive — (modelled)Jun 23Jun 30, 2018 — seafloor 72 m (measured), deepest dive — (modelled)Jun 30Jul 1, 2018 — seafloor 67 m (measured), deepest dive — (modelled)Jul 1Jul 2, 2018 — seafloor 61 m (measured), deepest dive — (modelled)Jul 2Jul 4, 2018 — seafloor 104 m (measured), deepest dive — (modelled)Jul 4Jul 6, 2018 — seafloor 262 m (measured), deepest dive — (modelled)Jul 6

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
9
Sightings
116
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 · Jul 6, 2018

measured
Seafloor depth
262 m
Sea-surface temperature
14.9°C
Distance from shore
4.0 km

Across the residency · 9 sightings

measured
Seafloor depth
61 m – 451 m
Sea-surface temperature
12.0°C – 15.0°C
Distance from shore
2.0 km – 9.0 km

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

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Source records

This activity is assembled from 9 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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