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Monterey Bay

CRC-11323 – Residency

16th sighting in Monterey Bay
Fluke of CRC-11323
CRC-11323 Confirmed in the catalog @823
Aug 3 – Oct 27, 2023 · Monterey Bay

Monterey Bay · Aug – Oct 2023

140 m
Deepest dive
4:39
Longest dive
73
Dives
Sightings
4
Days between first and last sighting
85

Dive stats modelled within real depth limits — not measured

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SightingSeafloorSea tempDeepest dive (modelled)
Aug 3, 202355 m13.8°C28 m
Sep 1, 202378 m17.6°C26 m
Oct 26, 2023282 m15.1°C112 m
Oct 27, 2023300 m14.6°C140 m

Seafloor and sea temperature measured · ✳ dives modelled

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Deepest dive against the seafloor, per sighting

Seafloor · measured Deepest dive · modelled
Aug 3, 2023 — seafloor 55 m (measured), deepest dive 28 m (modelled)Aug 3Sep 1, 2023 — seafloor 78 m (measured), deepest dive 26 m (modelled)Sep 1Oct 26, 2023 — seafloor 282 m (measured), deepest dive 112 m (modelled)Oct 26Oct 27, 2023 — seafloor 300 m (measured), deepest dive 140 m (modelled)Oct 27

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

Dives

140 m
Deepest dive
4:39
Longest dive
73
Dives
25 m
Avg dive depth
4
Sightings
85
Days first → last

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Dive profile

modelled
075150140 mstartdive sequence (illustrative)

Depth shaped by the seafloor limit here (300 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 · Oct 27, 2023

measured
Seafloor depth
300 m
Sea-surface temperature
14.6°C
Distance from shore
8.0 km

Across the residency · 4 sightings

measured
Seafloor depth
55 m – 300 m
Sea-surface temperature
13.8°C – 17.6°C
Distance from shore
1.0 km – 10.0 km

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

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Source records

This activity is assembled from 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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