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Monterey Bay

WASP – Residency

55th sighting in Monterey Bay
Fluke of WASP
WASP Confirmed in the catalog @90628
Aug 4 – Nov 30, 2024 · Monterey Bay

Monterey Bay · Aug – Nov 2024

143 m
Deepest dive
5:04
Longest dive
240
Dives
Sightings
24
Days between first and last sighting
118

Dive stats modelled within real depth limits — not measured

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SightingSeafloorSea tempDeepest dive (modelled)
Aug 4, 2024107 m14.8°C31 m
Aug 7, 2024177 m15.2°C143 m
Aug 8, 202472 m15.1°C29 m
Aug 19, 2024116 m14.9°C69 m
Aug 21, 202491 m14.3°C64 m
Sep 10, 2024105 m15.5°C52 m
Sep 10, 2024567 m15.6°C128 m
Sep 21, 202445 m15.1°C10 m
Sep 22, 202480 m15.5°C47 m
Sep 28, 2024278 m15.8°C102 m
Sep 28, 202477 m15.7°C60 m
Oct 1, 2024139 m16.2°C45 m
Oct 2, 2024127 m16.4°C101 m
Oct 5, 2024144 m16.4°C113 m
Oct 6, 2024116 m16.4°C50 m
Oct 9, 2024179 m16.5°C77 m
Oct 9, 2024207 m16.5°C40 m
Oct 23, 202474 m14.4°C38 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 4, 2024 — seafloor 107 m (measured), deepest dive 31 m (modelled)Aug 4Aug 7, 2024 — seafloor 177 m (measured), deepest dive 143 m (modelled)Aug 8, 2024 — seafloor 72 m (measured), deepest dive 29 m (modelled)Aug 19, 2024 — seafloor 116 m (measured), deepest dive 69 m (modelled)Aug 21, 2024 — seafloor 91 m (measured), deepest dive 64 m (modelled)Aug 21Sep 10, 2024 — seafloor 105 m (measured), deepest dive 52 m (modelled)Sep 10, 2024 — seafloor 567 m (measured), deepest dive 128 m (modelled)Sep 21, 2024 — seafloor 45 m (measured), deepest dive 10 m (modelled)Sep 22, 2024 — seafloor 80 m (measured), deepest dive 47 m (modelled)Sep 22Sep 28, 2024 — seafloor 278 m (measured), deepest dive 102 m (modelled)Sep 28, 2024 — seafloor 77 m (measured), deepest dive 60 m (modelled)Oct 1, 2024 — seafloor 139 m (measured), deepest dive 45 m (modelled)Oct 2, 2024 — seafloor 127 m (measured), deepest dive 101 m (modelled)Oct 2Oct 5, 2024 — seafloor 144 m (measured), deepest dive 113 m (modelled)Oct 6, 2024 — seafloor 116 m (measured), deepest dive 50 m (modelled)Oct 9, 2024 — seafloor 179 m (measured), deepest dive 77 m (modelled)Oct 9, 2024 — seafloor 207 m (measured), deepest dive 40 m (modelled)Oct 9Oct 23, 2024 — seafloor 74 m (measured), deepest dive 38 m (modelled)Oct 23, 2024 — seafloor 567 m (measured), deepest dive 43 m (modelled)Oct 24, 2024 — seafloor 567 m (measured), deepest dive 83 m (modelled)Oct 26, 2024 — seafloor 1,026 m (measured), deepest dive 116 m (modelled)Oct 26Nov 2, 2024 — seafloor 133 m (measured), deepest dive 107 m (modelled)Nov 13, 2024 — seafloor 84 m (measured), deepest dive 50 m (modelled)Nov 30, 2024 — seafloor 112 m (measured), deepest dive 83 m (modelled)

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

Dives

143 m
Deepest dive
5:04
Longest dive
240
Dives
25 m
Avg dive depth
24
Sightings
118
Days first → last

Dive metrics are modelled within real depth limits — not measured

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Dive profile

modelled
075150143 mstartdive sequence (illustrative)

Depth shaped by the seafloor limit here (177 m) and the published dive-behaviour distribution. Modelled, not measured.

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Place

Where this happened · Aug 7, 2024

measured
Seafloor depth
177 m
Sea-surface temperature
15.2°C
Distance from shore
11.0 km

Across the residency · 24 sightings

measured
Seafloor depth
45 m – 1,026 m
Sea-surface temperature
12.4°C – 16.5°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 24 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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