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Monterey Bay

Daylight – Residency

10th sighting in Monterey Bay
Fluke of Daylight
Daylight Confirmed in the catalog @7478
Jun 13 – Aug 6, 2020 · Monterey Bay

Monterey Bay · Jun – Aug 2020

248 m
Deepest dive
7:13
Longest dive
45
Dives
Sightings
2
Days between first and last sighting
54
Deepest dive on record
248 m · this residency

Dive stats modelled within real depth limits — not measured

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SightingSeafloorSea tempDeepest dive (modelled)
Jun 13, 2020380 m12.9°C248 m
Aug 6, 2020248 m15.1°C157 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 13, 2020 — seafloor 380 m (measured), deepest dive 248 m (modelled)Jun 13Aug 6, 2020 — seafloor 248 m (measured), deepest dive 157 m (modelled)Aug 6

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

Dives

248 m
Deepest dive
7:13
Longest dive
45
Dives
49 m
Avg dive depth
2
Sightings
54
Days first → last

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Dive profile

modelled
0125250248 mstartdive sequence (illustrative)

Depth shaped by the seafloor limit here (380 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 13, 2020

measured
Seafloor depth
380 m
Sea-surface temperature
12.9°C
Distance from shore
8.0 km

Across the residency · 2 sightings

measured
Seafloor depth
248 m – 380 m
Sea-surface temperature
12.9°C – 15.1°C
Distance from shore
4.0 km – 8.0 km

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

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Source records

This activity is assembled from 2 catalogued encounters on Happywhale.

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