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Monterey Bay

Lefty – Residency

11th sighting in Monterey Bay
Fluke of Lefty
Lefty Confirmed in the catalog @934
May 24 – Jun 23, 2015 · Monterey Bay

Monterey Bay · May – Jun 2015

97 m
Deepest dive
3:18
Longest dive
54
Dives
Sightings
4
Days between first and last sighting
31

Dive stats modelled within real depth limits — not measured

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SightingSeafloorSea tempDeepest dive (modelled)
May 24, 2015254 m13.7°C40 m
Jun 10, 201570 m14.1°C30 m
Jun 21, 2015183 m13.8°C51 m
Jun 23, 2015114 m13.6°C97 m

Seafloor and sea temperature measured · ✳ dives modelled

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Deepest dive against the seafloor, per sighting

Seafloor · measured Deepest dive · modelled
May 24, 2015 — seafloor 254 m (measured), deepest dive 40 m (modelled)May 24Jun 10, 2015 — seafloor 70 m (measured), deepest dive 30 m (modelled)Jun 10Jun 21, 2015 — seafloor 183 m (measured), deepest dive 51 m (modelled)Jun 21Jun 23, 2015 — seafloor 114 m (measured), deepest dive 97 m (modelled)Jun 23

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

Dives

97 m
Deepest dive
3:18
Longest dive
54
Dives
23 m
Avg dive depth
4
Sightings
31
Days first → last

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Dive profile

modelled
05010097 mstartdive sequence (illustrative)

Depth shaped by the seafloor limit here (114 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 · Jun 23, 2015

measured
Seafloor depth
114 m
Sea-surface temperature
13.6°C
Distance from shore
3.0 km

Across the residency · 4 sightings

measured
Seafloor depth
70 m – 254 m
Sea-surface temperature
13.6°C – 14.1°C
Distance from shore
2.0 km – 11.0 km

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

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Source records

This activity is assembled from 4 catalogued encounters on Happywhale.

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