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Monterey Bay

CRC-15275 – Residency

18th sighting in Monterey Bay
Fluke of CRC-15275
CRC-15275 Confirmed in the catalog @803
May 12 – Aug 11, 2021 · Monterey Bay

Monterey Bay · May – Aug 2021

283 m
Deepest dive
8:36
Longest dive
119
Dives
Sightings
11
Days between first and last sighting
91

Dive stats modelled within real depth limits — not measured

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SightingSeafloorSea tempDeepest dive (modelled)
May 12, 202179 m11.8°C72 m
May 13, 2021135 m11.7°C85 m
May 22, 2021567 m11.7°C51 m
May 22, 202145 m12.1°C38 m
May 23, 202158 m12.3°C40 m
May 24, 202138 m12.7°C25 m
Aug 8, 202167 m16.4°C57 m
Aug 9, 202177 m16.2°C37 m
Aug 10, 2021576 m15.8°C283 m
Aug 10, 2021134 m15.9°C83 m
Aug 11, 202179 m15.9°C33 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 12, 2021 — seafloor 79 m (measured), deepest dive 72 m (modelled)May 12May 13, 2021 — seafloor 135 m (measured), deepest dive 85 m (modelled)May 13May 22, 2021 — seafloor 567 m (measured), deepest dive 51 m (modelled)May 22May 22, 2021 — seafloor 45 m (measured), deepest dive 38 m (modelled)May 22May 23, 2021 — seafloor 58 m (measured), deepest dive 40 m (modelled)May 23May 24, 2021 — seafloor 38 m (measured), deepest dive 25 m (modelled)May 24Aug 8, 2021 — seafloor 67 m (measured), deepest dive 57 m (modelled)Aug 8Aug 9, 2021 — seafloor 77 m (measured), deepest dive 37 m (modelled)Aug 9Aug 10, 2021 — seafloor 576 m (measured), deepest dive 283 m (modelled)Aug 10Aug 10, 2021 — seafloor 134 m (measured), deepest dive 83 m (modelled)Aug 10Aug 11, 2021 — seafloor 79 m (measured), deepest dive 33 m (modelled)Aug 11

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

Dives

283 m
Deepest dive
8:36
Longest dive
119
Dives
24 m
Avg dive depth
11
Sightings
91
Days first → last

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Dive profile

modelled
0150300283 mstartdive sequence (illustrative)

Depth shaped by the seafloor limit here (576 m) and the published dive-behaviour distribution. Modelled, not measured.

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Deep

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Place

Where this happened · Aug 10, 2021

measured
Seafloor depth
576 m
Sea-surface temperature
15.8°C
Distance from shore
16.0 km

Across the residency · 11 sightings

measured
Seafloor depth
38 m – 576 m
Sea-surface temperature
11.7°C – 16.4°C
Distance from shore
1.0 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 11 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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