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Monterey Bay

Nerd Girl – Residency

72nd sighting in Monterey Bay
Fluke of Nerd Girl
Nerd Girl Confirmed in the catalog @82314
Jul 16 – Nov 4, 2024 · Monterey Bay

Monterey Bay · Jul – Nov 2024

221 m
Deepest dive
7:04
Longest dive
88
Dives
Sightings
9
Days between first and last sighting
111

Dive stats modelled within real depth limits — not measured

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SightingSeafloorSea tempDeepest dive (modelled)
Jul 16, 2024413 m15.4°C69 m
Jul 24, 202474 m16.7°C57 m
Oct 14, 202461 m15.7°C51 m
Oct 15, 202486 m15.5°C48 m
Oct 19, 2024567 m14.5°C221 m
Oct 19, 2024231 m14.5°C117 m
Oct 23, 2024212 m14.5°C23 m
Oct 24, 2024369 m14.3°C110 m
Nov 4, 2024567 m13.1°C59 m

Seafloor and sea temperature measured · ✳ dives modelled

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Deepest dive against the seafloor, per sighting

Seafloor · measured Deepest dive · modelled
Jul 16, 2024 — seafloor 413 m (measured), deepest dive 69 m (modelled)Jul 16Jul 24, 2024 — seafloor 74 m (measured), deepest dive 57 m (modelled)Jul 24Oct 14, 2024 — seafloor 61 m (measured), deepest dive 51 m (modelled)Oct 14Oct 15, 2024 — seafloor 86 m (measured), deepest dive 48 m (modelled)Oct 15Oct 19, 2024 — seafloor 567 m (measured), deepest dive 221 m (modelled)Oct 19Oct 19, 2024 — seafloor 231 m (measured), deepest dive 117 m (modelled)Oct 19Oct 23, 2024 — seafloor 212 m (measured), deepest dive 23 m (modelled)Oct 23Oct 24, 2024 — seafloor 369 m (measured), deepest dive 110 m (modelled)Oct 24Nov 4, 2024 — seafloor 567 m (measured), deepest dive 59 m (modelled)Nov 4

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

Dives

221 m
Deepest dive
7:04
Longest dive
88
Dives
31 m
Avg dive depth
9
Sightings
111
Days first → last

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Dive profile

modelled
0125250221 mstartdive sequence (illustrative)

Depth shaped by the seafloor limit here (567 m) and the published dive-behaviour distribution. Modelled, not measured.

Deep Effort Score

Deep

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Place

Where this happened · Oct 19, 2024

measured
Seafloor depth
567 m
Sea-surface temperature
14.5°C
Distance from shore
16.0 km

Across the residency · 9 sightings

measured
Seafloor depth
61 m – 567 m
Sea-surface temperature
13.1°C – 16.7°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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