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Monterey Bay

Talisman – Residency

32nd sighting in Monterey Bay
Fluke of Talisman
Talisman Confirmed in the catalog @7265
Jun 28 – Aug 21, 2021 · Monterey Bay

Monterey Bay · Jun – Aug 2021

100 m
Deepest dive
3:25
Longest dive
63
Dives
Sightings
4
Days between first and last sighting
54

Dive stats modelled within real depth limits — not measured

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SightingSeafloorSea tempDeepest dive (modelled)
Jun 28, 2021226 m14.5°C100 m
Jun 28, 2021502 m14.6°C40 m
Jun 30, 202128 m15.9°C23 m
Aug 21, 202190 m16.0°C78 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 28, 2021 — seafloor 226 m (measured), deepest dive 100 m (modelled)Jun 28Jun 28, 2021 — seafloor 502 m (measured), deepest dive 40 m (modelled)Jun 28Jun 30, 2021 — seafloor 28 m (measured), deepest dive 23 m (modelled)Jun 30Aug 21, 2021 — seafloor 90 m (measured), deepest dive 78 m (modelled)Aug 21

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

Dives

100 m
Deepest dive
3:25
Longest dive
63
Dives
21 m
Avg dive depth
4
Sightings
54
Days first → last

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Dive profile

modelled
050100100 mstartdive sequence (illustrative)

Depth shaped by the seafloor limit here (226 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 · Jun 28, 2021

measured
Seafloor depth
226 m
Sea-surface temperature
14.5°C
Distance from shore
4.0 km

Across the residency · 4 sightings

measured
Seafloor depth
28 m – 502 m
Sea-surface temperature
14.5°C – 16.0°C
Distance from shore
4.0 km – 13.0 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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