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Monterey Bay

CRC-20609 – Residency

5th sighting in Monterey Bay
Fluke of CRC-20609
CRC-20609 Confirmed in the catalog @79283
Mar 16 – May 27, 2022 · Monterey Bay

Monterey Bay · Mar – May 2022

59 m
Deepest dive
2:44
Longest dive
71
Dives
Sightings
5
Days between first and last sighting
72

Dive stats modelled within real depth limits — not measured

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SightingSeafloorSea tempDeepest dive (modelled)
Mar 16, 202248 m—21 m
Apr 29, 202271 m—45 m
May 4, 202257 m—48 m
May 27, 202275 m—46 m
May 27, 202266 m—59 m

Seafloor and sea temperature measured · ✳ dives modelled

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Deepest dive against the seafloor, per sighting

Seafloor · measured Deepest dive · modelled
Mar 16, 2022 — seafloor 48 m (measured), deepest dive 21 m (modelled)Mar 16Apr 29, 2022 — seafloor 71 m (measured), deepest dive 45 m (modelled)Apr 29May 4, 2022 — seafloor 57 m (measured), deepest dive 48 m (modelled)May 4May 27, 2022 — seafloor 75 m (measured), deepest dive 46 m (modelled)May 27May 27, 2022 — seafloor 66 m (measured), deepest dive 59 m (modelled)May 27

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

Dives

59 m
Deepest dive
2:44
Longest dive
71
Dives
16 m
Avg dive depth
5
Sightings
72
Days first → last

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Dive profile

modelled
05010059 mstartdive sequence (illustrative)

Depth shaped by the seafloor limit here (66 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 27, 2022

measured
Seafloor depth
66 m
Sea-surface temperature
—
Distance from shore
—

Across the residency · 5 sightings

measured
Seafloor depth
48 m – 75 m
Sea-surface temperature
—
Distance from shore
2.0 km – 10.0 km

Sources: GEBCO seafloor grid · PacIOOS coastline distance

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Source records

This activity is assembled from 5 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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