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Monterey Bay

Richelle – Residency

46th sighting in Monterey Bay
Fluke of Richelle
Richelle Confirmed in the catalog @841
Jun 22 – Sep 30, 2023 · Monterey Bay

Monterey Bay · Jun – Sep 2023

132 m
Deepest dive
4:31
Longest dive
80
Dives
Sightings
9
Days between first and last sighting
101

Dive stats modelled within real depth limits — not measured

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SightingSeafloorSea tempDeepest dive (modelled)
Jun 22, 2023346 m14.6°C59 m
Jul 11, 202347 m13.3°C38 m
Jul 16, 2023108 m15.2°C21 m
Jul 16, 2023567 m15.5°C72 m
Jul 18, 2023567 m15.3°C36 m
Aug 25, 2023316 m17.7°C73 m
Sep 25, 2023567 m16.9°C101 m
Sep 26, 2023166 m17.0°C132 m
Sep 30, 202383 m16.3°C67 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 22, 2023 — seafloor 346 m (measured), deepest dive 59 m (modelled)Jun 22Jul 11, 2023 — seafloor 47 m (measured), deepest dive 38 m (modelled)Jul 11Jul 16, 2023 — seafloor 108 m (measured), deepest dive 21 m (modelled)Jul 16Jul 16, 2023 — seafloor 567 m (measured), deepest dive 72 m (modelled)Jul 16Jul 18, 2023 — seafloor 567 m (measured), deepest dive 36 m (modelled)Jul 18Aug 25, 2023 — seafloor 316 m (measured), deepest dive 73 m (modelled)Aug 25Sep 25, 2023 — seafloor 567 m (measured), deepest dive 101 m (modelled)Sep 25Sep 26, 2023 — seafloor 166 m (measured), deepest dive 132 m (modelled)Sep 26Sep 30, 2023 — seafloor 83 m (measured), deepest dive 67 m (modelled)Sep 30

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

Dives

132 m
Deepest dive
4:31
Longest dive
80
Dives
24 m
Avg dive depth
9
Sightings
101
Days first → last

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Dive profile

modelled
075150132 mstartdive sequence (illustrative)

Depth shaped by the seafloor limit here (166 m) and the published dive-behaviour distribution. Modelled, not measured.

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Deep

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Place

Where this happened · Sep 26, 2023

measured
Seafloor depth
166 m
Sea-surface temperature
17.0°C
Distance from shore
7.0 km

Across the residency · 9 sightings

measured
Seafloor depth
47 m – 567 m
Sea-surface temperature
13.3°C – 17.7°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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