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Monterey Bay

Chainmail – Residency

12th sighting in Monterey Bay
Fluke of Chainmail
Chainmail Confirmed in the catalog @75799
Nov 14, 2021 – Jan 8, 2022 · Monterey Bay

Monterey Bay · Nov 2021 – Jan 2022

124 m
Deepest dive
6:20
Longest dive
91
Dives
Sightings
12
Days between first and last sighting
55
Deepest dive on record
124 m · this residency

Dive stats modelled within real depth limits — not measured

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SightingSeafloorSea tempDeepest dive (modelled)
Nov 14, 202159 m—37 m
Nov 18, 2021127 m—95 m
Nov 22, 2021146 m—97 m
Nov 28, 202188 m—74 m
Dec 3, 2021242 m—45 m
Dec 4, 2021191 m—78 m
Dec 5, 2021138 m—58 m
Dec 5, 2021161 m—124 m
Dec 17, 202137 m—16 m
Dec 18, 202145 m—20 m
Jan 8, 2022241 m—89 m
Jan 8, 2022350 m—25 m

Seafloor and sea temperature measured · ✳ dives modelled

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Deepest dive against the seafloor, per sighting

Seafloor · measured Deepest dive · modelled
Nov 14, 2021 — seafloor 59 m (measured), deepest dive 37 m (modelled)Nov 14Nov 18, 2021 — seafloor 127 m (measured), deepest dive 95 m (modelled)Nov 18Nov 22, 2021 — seafloor 146 m (measured), deepest dive 97 m (modelled)Nov 22Nov 28, 2021 — seafloor 88 m (measured), deepest dive 74 m (modelled)Nov 28Dec 3, 2021 — seafloor 242 m (measured), deepest dive 45 m (modelled)Dec 3Dec 4, 2021 — seafloor 191 m (measured), deepest dive 78 m (modelled)Dec 4Dec 5, 2021 — seafloor 138 m (measured), deepest dive 58 m (modelled)Dec 5Dec 5, 2021 — seafloor 161 m (measured), deepest dive 124 m (modelled)Dec 5Dec 17, 2021 — seafloor 37 m (measured), deepest dive 16 m (modelled)Dec 17Dec 18, 2021 — seafloor 45 m (measured), deepest dive 20 m (modelled)Dec 18Jan 8, 2022 — seafloor 241 m (measured), deepest dive 89 m (modelled)Jan 8Jan 8, 2022 — seafloor 350 m (measured), deepest dive 25 m (modelled)Jan 8

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

Dives

124 m
Deepest dive
6:20
Longest dive
91
Dives
26 m
Avg dive depth
12
Sightings
55
Days first → last

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Dive profile

modelled
075150124 mstartdive sequence (illustrative)

Depth shaped by the seafloor limit here (161 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 · Dec 5, 2021

measured
Seafloor depth
161 m
Sea-surface temperature
—
Distance from shore
3.0 km

Across the residency · 12 sightings

measured
Seafloor depth
37 m – 350 m
Sea-surface temperature
—
Distance from shore
2.0 km – 9.0 km

Sources: GEBCO seafloor grid · PacIOOS coastline distance

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Source records

This activity is assembled from 12 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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