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Monterey Bay

Vertigo – Residency

52nd sighting in Monterey Bay
Fluke of Vertigo
Vertigo Confirmed in the catalog @7623
May 27 – Sep 8, 2022 · Monterey Bay

Monterey Bay · May – Sep 2022

293 m
Deepest dive
10:51
Longest dive
89
Dives
Sightings
9
Days between first and last sighting
104

Dive stats modelled within real depth limits — not measured

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SightingSeafloorSea tempDeepest dive (modelled)
May 27, 2022567 m12.0°C76 m
May 29, 202271 m12.2°C30 m
May 30, 202274 m12.0°C60 m
Jun 11, 2022946 m12.9°C63 m
Jun 12, 2022946 m12.8°C293 m
Jul 13, 202248 m14.8°C30 m
Jul 14, 202270 m15.2°C41 m
Jul 27, 2022106 m14.0°C52 m
Sep 8, 202263 m16.4°C26 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 27, 2022 — seafloor 567 m (measured), deepest dive 76 m (modelled)May 27May 29, 2022 — seafloor 71 m (measured), deepest dive 30 m (modelled)May 29May 30, 2022 — seafloor 74 m (measured), deepest dive 60 m (modelled)May 30Jun 11, 2022 — seafloor 946 m (measured), deepest dive 63 m (modelled)Jun 11Jun 12, 2022 — seafloor 946 m (measured), deepest dive 293 m (modelled)Jun 12Jul 13, 2022 — seafloor 48 m (measured), deepest dive 30 m (modelled)Jul 13Jul 14, 2022 — seafloor 70 m (measured), deepest dive 41 m (modelled)Jul 14Jul 27, 2022 — seafloor 106 m (measured), deepest dive 52 m (modelled)Jul 27Sep 8, 2022 — seafloor 63 m (measured), deepest dive 26 m (modelled)Sep 8

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

Dives

293 m
Deepest dive
10:51
Longest dive
89
Dives
28 m
Avg dive depth
9
Sightings
104
Days first → last

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Dive profile

modelled
0150300293 mstartdive sequence (illustrative)

Depth shaped by the seafloor limit here (946 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 · Jun 12, 2022

measured
Seafloor depth
946 m
Sea-surface temperature
12.8°C
Distance from shore
16.0 km

Across the residency · 9 sightings

measured
Seafloor depth
48 m – 946 m
Sea-surface temperature
12.0°C – 16.4°C
Distance from shore
2.0 km – 16.0 km

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

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Source records

This activity is assembled from 9 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.

The photographs and fluke identifications behind every sighting are the work of the contributing observers — the citizen scientists, naturalists and operators who logged them, each named in the underlying GBIF occurrence record. Every activity links out to its source encounters on Happywhale. Basemaps © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL).

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