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Monterey Bay

CRC-15615 – Residency

18th sighting in Monterey Bay
Fluke of CRC-15615
CRC-15615 Confirmed in the catalog @927
Aug 5 – Oct 7, 2023 · Monterey Bay

Monterey Bay · Aug – Oct 2023

159 m
Deepest dive
4:25
Longest dive
118
Dives
Sightings
11
Days between first and last sighting
63

Dive stats modelled within real depth limits — not measured

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SightingSeafloorSea tempDeepest dive (modelled)
Aug 5, 20231,592 m13.0°C44 m
Aug 7, 2023223 m13.7°C69 m
Aug 7, 202393 m13.2°C24 m
Aug 7, 2023567 m13.3°C159 m
Sep 18, 2023663 m16.7°C89 m
Sep 18, 202382 m16.7°C36 m
Sep 19, 202366 m16.5°C30 m
Sep 23, 2023117 m16.8°C53 m
Oct 6, 2023272 m17.3°C35 m
Oct 7, 202387 m17.1°C76 m
Oct 7, 2023105 m17.0°C20 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 5, 2023 — seafloor 1,592 m (measured), deepest dive 44 m (modelled)Aug 5Aug 7, 2023 — seafloor 223 m (measured), deepest dive 69 m (modelled)Aug 7Aug 7, 2023 — seafloor 93 m (measured), deepest dive 24 m (modelled)Aug 7Aug 7, 2023 — seafloor 567 m (measured), deepest dive 159 m (modelled)Aug 7Sep 18, 2023 — seafloor 663 m (measured), deepest dive 89 m (modelled)Sep 18Sep 18, 2023 — seafloor 82 m (measured), deepest dive 36 m (modelled)Sep 18Sep 19, 2023 — seafloor 66 m (measured), deepest dive 30 m (modelled)Sep 19Sep 23, 2023 — seafloor 117 m (measured), deepest dive 53 m (modelled)Sep 23Oct 6, 2023 — seafloor 272 m (measured), deepest dive 35 m (modelled)Oct 6Oct 7, 2023 — seafloor 87 m (measured), deepest dive 76 m (modelled)Oct 7Oct 7, 2023 — seafloor 105 m (measured), deepest dive 20 m (modelled)Oct 7

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

Dives

159 m
Deepest dive
4:25
Longest dive
118
Dives
22 m
Avg dive depth
11
Sightings
63
Days first → last

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Dive profile

modelled
0100200159 mstartdive sequence (illustrative)

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

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Place

Where this happened · Aug 7, 2023

measured
Seafloor depth
567 m
Sea-surface temperature
13.3°C
Distance from shore
16.0 km

Across the residency · 11 sightings

measured
Seafloor depth
66 m – 1,592 m
Sea-surface temperature
13.0°C – 17.3°C
Distance from shore
5.0 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 11 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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