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Monterey Bay

Daylight – Residency

32nd sighting in Monterey Bay
Fluke of Daylight
Daylight Confirmed in the catalog @7478
Apr 7 – Jun 10, 2025 · Monterey Bay

Monterey Bay · Apr – Jun 2025

64 m
Deepest dive
2:53
Longest dive
87
Dives
Sightings
6
Days between first and last sighting
64

Dive stats modelled within real depth limits — not measured

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SightingSeafloorSea tempDeepest dive (modelled)
Apr 7, 202563 m12.9°C54 m
Apr 16, 202578 m12.0°C56 m
Apr 24, 202571 m13.1°C42 m
May 1, 2025567 m13.0°C64 m
Jun 8, 202570 m15.3°C60 m
Jun 10, 202561 m14.4°C56 m

Seafloor and sea temperature measured · ✳ dives modelled

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Deepest dive against the seafloor, per sighting

Seafloor · measured Deepest dive · modelled
Apr 7, 2025 — seafloor 63 m (measured), deepest dive 54 m (modelled)Apr 7Apr 16, 2025 — seafloor 78 m (measured), deepest dive 56 m (modelled)Apr 16Apr 24, 2025 — seafloor 71 m (measured), deepest dive 42 m (modelled)Apr 24May 1, 2025 — seafloor 567 m (measured), deepest dive 64 m (modelled)May 1Jun 8, 2025 — seafloor 70 m (measured), deepest dive 60 m (modelled)Jun 8Jun 10, 2025 — seafloor 61 m (measured), deepest dive 56 m (modelled)Jun 10

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

Dives

64 m
Deepest dive
2:53
Longest dive
87
Dives
22 m
Avg dive depth
6
Sightings
64
Days first → last

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Dive profile

modelled
05010064 mstartdive sequence (illustrative)

Depth shaped by the seafloor limit here (567 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 1, 2025

measured
Seafloor depth
567 m
Sea-surface temperature
13.0°C
Distance from shore
16.0 km

Across the residency · 6 sightings

measured
Seafloor depth
61 m – 567 m
Sea-surface temperature
12.0°C – 15.3°C
Distance from shore
2.0 km – 16.0 km

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

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Source records

This activity is assembled from 6 catalogued encounters on Happywhale.

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