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Monterey Bay

Daylight – Residency

8th sighting in Monterey Bay
Fluke of Daylight
Daylight Confirmed in the catalog @7478
Dec 14, 2019 – Mar 7, 2020 · Monterey Bay

Monterey Bay · Dec 2019 – Mar 2020

162 m
Deepest dive
6:26
Longest dive
20
Dives
Sightings
3
Days between first and last sighting
84

Dive stats modelled within real depth limits — not measured

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SightingSeafloorSea tempDeepest dive (modelled)
Dec 14, 2019127 m13.9°C25 m
Mar 6, 20201,798 m12.5°C162 m
Mar 7, 202093 m12.6°C66 m

Seafloor and sea temperature measured · ✳ dives modelled

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Deepest dive against the seafloor, per sighting

Seafloor · measured Deepest dive · modelled
Dec 14, 2019 — seafloor 127 m (measured), deepest dive 25 m (modelled)Dec 14Mar 6, 2020 — seafloor 1,798 m (measured), deepest dive 162 m (modelled)Mar 6Mar 7, 2020 — seafloor 93 m (measured), deepest dive 66 m (modelled)Mar 7

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

Dives

162 m
Deepest dive
6:26
Longest dive
20
Dives
33 m
Avg dive depth
3
Sightings
84
Days first → last

Dive metrics are modelled within real depth limits — not measured

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Dive profile

modelled
0100200162 mstartdive sequence (illustrative)

Depth shaped by the seafloor limit here (1,798 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 · Mar 6, 2020

measured
Seafloor depth
1,798 m
Sea-surface temperature
12.5°C
Distance from shore
13.0 km

Across the residency · 3 sightings

measured
Seafloor depth
93 m – 1,798 m
Sea-surface temperature
12.5°C – 13.9°C
Distance from shore
6.0 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 3 catalogued encounters on Happywhale.

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