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Monterey Bay

Richelle – Residency

31st sighting in Monterey Bay
Fluke of Richelle
Richelle Confirmed in the catalog @841
Oct 10 – Nov 10, 2018 · Monterey Bay

Monterey Bay · Oct – Nov 2018

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Deepest dive
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Longest dive
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Dives
Sightings
12
Days between first and last sighting
31

Dive stats modelled within real depth limits — not measured

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SightingSeafloorSea tempDeepest dive (modelled)
Oct 10, 2018119 m15.6°C—
Oct 11, 2018153 m15.3°C—
Oct 12, 2018254 m15.3°C—
Oct 12, 201887 m15.4°C—
Oct 12, 201893 m15.4°C—
Oct 13, 2018254 m15.4°C—
Oct 14, 2018147 m15.7°C—
Oct 14, 2018108 m15.6°C—
Oct 15, 2018565 m16.8°C—
Oct 31, 2018222 m14.8°C—
Nov 2, 2018241 m13.8°C—
Nov 10, 2018254 m13.5°C—

Seafloor and sea temperature measured · ✳ dives modelled

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Deepest dive against the seafloor, per sighting

Seafloor · measured Deepest dive · modelled
Oct 10, 2018 — seafloor 119 m (measured), deepest dive — (modelled)Oct 10Oct 11, 2018 — seafloor 153 m (measured), deepest dive — (modelled)Oct 11Oct 12, 2018 — seafloor 254 m (measured), deepest dive — (modelled)Oct 12Oct 12, 2018 — seafloor 87 m (measured), deepest dive — (modelled)Oct 12Oct 12, 2018 — seafloor 93 m (measured), deepest dive — (modelled)Oct 12Oct 13, 2018 — seafloor 254 m (measured), deepest dive — (modelled)Oct 13Oct 14, 2018 — seafloor 147 m (measured), deepest dive — (modelled)Oct 14Oct 14, 2018 — seafloor 108 m (measured), deepest dive — (modelled)Oct 14Oct 15, 2018 — seafloor 565 m (measured), deepest dive — (modelled)Oct 15Oct 31, 2018 — seafloor 222 m (measured), deepest dive — (modelled)Oct 31Nov 2, 2018 — seafloor 241 m (measured), deepest dive — (modelled)Nov 2Nov 10, 2018 — seafloor 254 m (measured), deepest dive — (modelled)Nov 10

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

Dives

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Deepest dive
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Longest dive
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Dives
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Avg dive depth
12
Sightings
31
Days first → last

Dive metrics are modelled within real depth limits — not measured

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Dive profile

modelled
02550startdive sequence (illustrative)

Modelled from the published dive-behaviour distribution. 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 · Nov 10, 2018

measured
Seafloor depth
254 m
Sea-surface temperature
13.5°C
Distance from shore
13.0 km

Across the residency · 12 sightings

measured
Seafloor depth
87 m – 565 m
Sea-surface temperature
13.5°C – 16.8°C
Distance from shore
3.0 km – 13.0 km

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

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Source records

This activity is assembled from 12 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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