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Monterey Bay

Wings – Residency

23rd sighting in Monterey Bay
Fluke of Wings
Wings Confirmed in the catalog @936
Oct 20 – Nov 12, 2023 · Monterey Bay

Monterey Bay · Oct – Nov 2023

99 m
Deepest dive
3:17
Longest dive
59
Dives
Sightings
6
Days between first and last sighting
23

Dive stats modelled within real depth limits — not measured

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SightingSeafloorSea tempDeepest dive (modelled)
Oct 20, 2023445 m15.8°C95 m
Oct 21, 2023145 m15.9°C90 m
Oct 25, 2023258 m15.6°C43 m
Oct 30, 2023260 m14.8°C99 m
Oct 31, 2023258 m14.6°C78 m
Nov 12, 2023387 m14.3°C56 m

Seafloor and sea temperature measured · ✳ dives modelled

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Deepest dive against the seafloor, per sighting

Seafloor · measured Deepest dive · modelled
Oct 20, 2023 — seafloor 445 m (measured), deepest dive 95 m (modelled)Oct 20Oct 21, 2023 — seafloor 145 m (measured), deepest dive 90 m (modelled)Oct 21Oct 25, 2023 — seafloor 258 m (measured), deepest dive 43 m (modelled)Oct 25Oct 30, 2023 — seafloor 260 m (measured), deepest dive 99 m (modelled)Oct 30Oct 31, 2023 — seafloor 258 m (measured), deepest dive 78 m (modelled)Oct 31Nov 12, 2023 — seafloor 387 m (measured), deepest dive 56 m (modelled)Nov 12

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

Dives

99 m
Deepest dive
3:17
Longest dive
59
Dives
27 m
Avg dive depth
6
Sightings
23
Days first → last

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Dive profile

modelled
05010099 mstartdive sequence (illustrative)

Depth shaped by the seafloor limit here (260 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 · Oct 30, 2023

measured
Seafloor depth
260 m
Sea-surface temperature
14.8°C
Distance from shore
4.0 km

Across the residency · 6 sightings

measured
Seafloor depth
145 m – 445 m
Sea-surface temperature
14.3°C – 15.9°C
Distance from shore
4.0 km – 12.0 km

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

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Source records

This activity is assembled from 6 catalogued encounters on Happywhale.

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