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Monterey Bay

CRC-20314 – Residency

13th sighting in Monterey Bay
Fluke of CRC-20314
CRC-20314 Confirmed in the catalog @91801
Sep 21 – Dec 3, 2022 · Monterey Bay

Monterey Bay · Sep – Dec 2022

158 m
Deepest dive
6:30
Longest dive
165
Dives
Sightings
13
Days between first and last sighting
73

Dive stats modelled within real depth limits — not measured

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SightingSeafloorSea tempDeepest dive (modelled)
Sep 21, 2022147 m16.0°C95 m
Oct 24, 202250 m13.6°C37 m
Nov 2, 202232 m13.2°C25 m
Nov 4, 202271 m13.2°C53 m
Nov 4, 202273 m13.2°C58 m
Nov 5, 202275 m13.1°C49 m
Nov 5, 202254 m13.1°C45 m
Nov 12, 202239 m12.2°C31 m
Nov 18, 202265 m12.8°C50 m
Nov 19, 2022567 m12.8°C29 m
Nov 20, 2022156 m12.5°C73 m
Nov 26, 202242 m12.0°C18 m
Dec 3, 2022211 m11.4°C158 m

Seafloor and sea temperature measured · ✳ dives modelled

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Deepest dive against the seafloor, per sighting

Seafloor · measured Deepest dive · modelled
Sep 21, 2022 — seafloor 147 m (measured), deepest dive 95 m (modelled)Sep 21Oct 24, 2022 — seafloor 50 m (measured), deepest dive 37 m (modelled)Nov 2, 2022 — seafloor 32 m (measured), deepest dive 25 m (modelled)Nov 4, 2022 — seafloor 71 m (measured), deepest dive 53 m (modelled)Nov 4Nov 4, 2022 — seafloor 73 m (measured), deepest dive 58 m (modelled)Nov 5, 2022 — seafloor 75 m (measured), deepest dive 49 m (modelled)Nov 5, 2022 — seafloor 54 m (measured), deepest dive 45 m (modelled)Nov 5Nov 12, 2022 — seafloor 39 m (measured), deepest dive 31 m (modelled)Nov 18, 2022 — seafloor 65 m (measured), deepest dive 50 m (modelled)Nov 19, 2022 — seafloor 567 m (measured), deepest dive 29 m (modelled)Nov 19Nov 20, 2022 — seafloor 156 m (measured), deepest dive 73 m (modelled)Nov 26, 2022 — seafloor 42 m (measured), deepest dive 18 m (modelled)Dec 3, 2022 — seafloor 211 m (measured), deepest dive 158 m (modelled)Dec 3

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

Dives

158 m
Deepest dive
6:30
Longest dive
165
Dives
23 m
Avg dive depth
13
Sightings
73
Days first → last

Dive metrics are modelled within real depth limits — not measured

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Dive profile

modelled
0100200158 mstartdive sequence (illustrative)

Depth shaped by the seafloor limit here (211 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 · Dec 3, 2022

measured
Seafloor depth
211 m
Sea-surface temperature
11.4°C
Distance from shore
3.0 km

Across the residency · 13 sightings

measured
Seafloor depth
32 m – 567 m
Sea-surface temperature
11.4°C – 16.0°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 13 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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