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Monterey Bay

Daylight – Residency

20th sighting in Monterey Bay
Fluke of Daylight
Daylight Confirmed in the catalog @7478
Sep 6 – 10, 2022 · Monterey Bay

Monterey Bay · Sep 2022

78 m
Deepest dive
1:52
Longest dive
18
Dives
Sightings
3
Days between first and last sighting
4

Dive stats modelled within real depth limits — not measured

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SightingSeafloorSea tempDeepest dive (modelled)
Sep 6, 2022109 m17.0°C78 m
Sep 9, 202272 m16.5°C25 m
Sep 10, 202278 m16.1°C45 m

Seafloor and sea temperature measured · ✳ dives modelled

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Deepest dive against the seafloor, per sighting

Seafloor · measured Deepest dive · modelled
Sep 6, 2022 — seafloor 109 m (measured), deepest dive 78 m (modelled)Sep 6Sep 9, 2022 — seafloor 72 m (measured), deepest dive 25 m (modelled)Sep 9Sep 10, 2022 — seafloor 78 m (measured), deepest dive 45 m (modelled)Sep 10

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

Dives

78 m
Deepest dive
1:52
Longest dive
18
Dives
18 m
Avg dive depth
3
Sightings
4
Days first → last

Dive metrics are modelled within real depth limits — not measured

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Dive profile

modelled
05010078 mstartdive sequence (illustrative)

Depth shaped by the seafloor limit here (109 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 · Sep 6, 2022

measured
Seafloor depth
109 m
Sea-surface temperature
17.0°C
Distance from shore
7.0 km

Across the residency · 3 sightings

measured
Seafloor depth
72 m – 109 m
Sea-surface temperature
16.1°C – 17.0°C
Distance from shore
5.0 km – 7.0 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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