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Monterey Bay

Direwolf – Residency

5th sighting in Monterey Bay
Fluke of Direwolf
Direwolf Confirmed in the catalog @7512
May 9 – Sep 8, 2017 · Monterey Bay

Monterey Bay · May – Sep 2017

161 m
Deepest dive
4:21
Longest dive
62
Dives
Sightings
5
Days between first and last sighting
122

Dive stats modelled within real depth limits — not measured

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SightingSeafloorSea tempDeepest dive (modelled)
May 9, 2017348 m10.8°C161 m
Jul 14, 201765 m12.9°C33 m
Jul 15, 201752 m12.9°C43 m
Jul 16, 201762 m12.9°C25 m
Sep 8, 201757 m17.4°C46 m

Seafloor and sea temperature measured · ✳ dives modelled

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Deepest dive against the seafloor, per sighting

Seafloor · measured Deepest dive · modelled
May 9, 2017 — seafloor 348 m (measured), deepest dive 161 m (modelled)May 9Jul 14, 2017 — seafloor 65 m (measured), deepest dive 33 m (modelled)Jul 14Jul 15, 2017 — seafloor 52 m (measured), deepest dive 43 m (modelled)Jul 15Jul 16, 2017 — seafloor 62 m (measured), deepest dive 25 m (modelled)Jul 16Sep 8, 2017 — seafloor 57 m (measured), deepest dive 46 m (modelled)Sep 8

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

Dives

161 m
Deepest dive
4:21
Longest dive
62
Dives
21 m
Avg dive depth
5
Sightings
122
Days first → last

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Dive profile

modelled
0100200161 mstartdive sequence (illustrative)

Depth shaped by the seafloor limit here (348 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 9, 2017

measured
Seafloor depth
348 m
Sea-surface temperature
10.8°C
Distance from shore
12.0 km

Across the residency · 5 sightings

measured
Seafloor depth
52 m – 348 m
Sea-surface temperature
10.8°C – 17.4°C
Distance from shore
3.0 km – 12.0 km

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

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Source records

This activity is assembled from 5 catalogued encounters on Happywhale.

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