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Monterey Bay

Stegosaurus – Residency

3rd sighting in Monterey Bay
Fluke of Stegosaurus
Stegosaurus Confirmed in the catalog @79447
Jun 20 – Sep 7, 2024 · Monterey Bay

Monterey Bay · Jun – Sep 2024

100 m
Deepest dive
4:03
Longest dive
36
Dives
Sightings
4
Days between first and last sighting
79
Deepest dive on record
100 m · this residency

Dive stats modelled within real depth limits — not measured

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SightingSeafloorSea tempDeepest dive (modelled)
Jun 20, 2024115 m—14 m
Jun 21, 202429 m—23 m
Aug 8, 2024211 m—100 m
Sep 7, 202453 m—41 m

Seafloor and sea temperature measured · ✳ dives modelled

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Deepest dive against the seafloor, per sighting

Seafloor · measured Deepest dive · modelled
Jun 20, 2024 — seafloor 115 m (measured), deepest dive 14 m (modelled)Jun 20Jun 21, 2024 — seafloor 29 m (measured), deepest dive 23 m (modelled)Jun 21Aug 8, 2024 — seafloor 211 m (measured), deepest dive 100 m (modelled)Aug 8Sep 7, 2024 — seafloor 53 m (measured), deepest dive 41 m (modelled)Sep 7

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

Dives

100 m
Deepest dive
4:03
Longest dive
36
Dives
20 m
Avg dive depth
4
Sightings
79
Days first → last

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Dive profile

modelled
050100100 mstartdive sequence (illustrative)

Depth shaped by the seafloor limit here (211 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 · Aug 8, 2024

measured
Seafloor depth
211 m
Sea-surface temperature
—
Distance from shore
6.0 km

Across the residency · 4 sightings

measured
Seafloor depth
29 m – 211 m
Sea-surface temperature
—
Distance from shore
1.0 km – 19.0 km

Sources: GEBCO seafloor grid · PacIOOS coastline distance

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Source records

This activity is assembled from 4 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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