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Monterey Bay

CRC-19770 – Residency

57th sighting in Monterey Bay
Fluke of CRC-19770
CRC-19770 Confirmed in the catalog @75777
Jul 31 – Oct 14, 2024 · Monterey Bay

Monterey Bay · Jul – Oct 2024

96 m
Deepest dive
4:09
Longest dive
157
Dives
Sightings
10
Days between first and last sighting
75

Dive stats modelled within real depth limits — not measured

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SightingSeafloorSea tempDeepest dive (modelled)
Jul 31, 202478 m16.5°C57 m
Aug 20, 2024120 m14.8°C78 m
Oct 7, 2024134 m17.0°C68 m
Oct 7, 202471 m17.0°C60 m
Oct 8, 2024184 m16.9°C47 m
Oct 9, 2024299 m16.5°C77 m
Oct 11, 2024206 m15.4°C51 m
Oct 12, 2024311 m15.4°C96 m
Oct 13, 2024114 m15.4°C47 m
Oct 14, 2024248 m15.7°C83 m

Seafloor and sea temperature measured · ✳ dives modelled

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Deepest dive against the seafloor, per sighting

Seafloor · measured Deepest dive · modelled
Jul 31, 2024 — seafloor 78 m (measured), deepest dive 57 m (modelled)Jul 31Aug 20, 2024 — seafloor 120 m (measured), deepest dive 78 m (modelled)Aug 20Oct 7, 2024 — seafloor 134 m (measured), deepest dive 68 m (modelled)Oct 7Oct 7, 2024 — seafloor 71 m (measured), deepest dive 60 m (modelled)Oct 7Oct 8, 2024 — seafloor 184 m (measured), deepest dive 47 m (modelled)Oct 8Oct 9, 2024 — seafloor 299 m (measured), deepest dive 77 m (modelled)Oct 9Oct 11, 2024 — seafloor 206 m (measured), deepest dive 51 m (modelled)Oct 11Oct 12, 2024 — seafloor 311 m (measured), deepest dive 96 m (modelled)Oct 12Oct 13, 2024 — seafloor 114 m (measured), deepest dive 47 m (modelled)Oct 13Oct 14, 2024 — seafloor 248 m (measured), deepest dive 83 m (modelled)Oct 14

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

Dives

96 m
Deepest dive
4:09
Longest dive
157
Dives
25 m
Avg dive depth
10
Sightings
75
Days first → last

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Dive profile

modelled
05010096 mstartdive sequence (illustrative)

Depth shaped by the seafloor limit here (311 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 · Oct 12, 2024

measured
Seafloor depth
311 m
Sea-surface temperature
15.4°C
Distance from shore
5.0 km

Across the residency · 10 sightings

measured
Seafloor depth
71 m – 311 m
Sea-surface temperature
14.8°C – 17.0°C
Distance from shore
4.0 km – 14.0 km

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

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Source records

This activity is assembled from 10 catalogued encounters on Happywhale.

Sighting records from Happywhale, published as occurrence data via GBIF. Individual records are licensed CC0 1.0, CC BY 4.0 or CC BY-NC 4.0, depending on the contributor.

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