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Monterey Bay

Direwolf – Residency

10th sighting in Monterey Bay
Fluke of Direwolf
Direwolf Confirmed in the catalog @7512
May 12 – 28, 2020 · Monterey Bay

Monterey Bay · May 2020

172 m
Deepest dive
6:12
Longest dive
39
Dives
Sightings
3
Days between first and last sighting
16
Deepest dive on record
172 m · this residency

Dive stats modelled within real depth limits — not measured

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SightingSeafloorSea tempDeepest dive (modelled)
May 12, 2020240 m14.2°C172 m
May 26, 2020111 m15.2°C63 m
May 28, 2020581 m13.7°C44 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 12, 2020 — seafloor 240 m (measured), deepest dive 172 m (modelled)May 12May 26, 2020 — seafloor 111 m (measured), deepest dive 63 m (modelled)May 26May 28, 2020 — seafloor 581 m (measured), deepest dive 44 m (modelled)May 28

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

Dives

172 m
Deepest dive
6:12
Longest dive
39
Dives
31 m
Avg dive depth
3
Sightings
16
Days first → last

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Dive profile

modelled
0100200172 mstartdive sequence (illustrative)

Depth shaped by the seafloor limit here (240 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 12, 2020

measured
Seafloor depth
240 m
Sea-surface temperature
14.2°C
Distance from shore
9.0 km

Across the residency · 3 sightings

measured
Seafloor depth
111 m – 581 m
Sea-surface temperature
13.7°C – 15.2°C
Distance from shore
9.0 km – 11.0 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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