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Monterey Bay

Motitas – Residency

42nd sighting in Monterey Bay
Fluke of Motitas
Motitas Confirmed in the catalog @959
Apr 29 – Aug 19, 2021 · Monterey Bay

Monterey Bay · Apr – Aug 2021

126 m
Deepest dive
5:39
Longest dive
354
Dives
Sightings
30
Days between first and last sighting
112

Dive stats modelled within real depth limits — not measured

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SightingSeafloorSea tempDeepest dive (modelled)
Apr 29, 2021226 m13.4°C100 m
May 16, 2021322 m12.2°C77 m
May 22, 2021159 m11.3°C93 m
May 22, 202145 m12.1°C41 m
May 26, 202161 m12.0°C56 m
May 27, 202150 m12.2°C8 m
Jun 3, 202152 m13.9°C46 m
Jun 3, 202152 m13.9°C35 m
Jun 6, 202170 m13.2°C50 m
Jun 8, 202165 m13.2°C49 m
Jun 9, 202171 m13.0°C57 m
Jun 16, 2021567 m14.4°C107 m
Jun 21, 202149 m14.6°C18 m
Jul 4, 202177 m14.5°C44 m
Jul 4, 202179 m14.5°C43 m
Jul 4, 2021104 m14.4°C86 m
Jul 5, 202126 m15.8°C23 m
Jul 13, 202182 m14.1°C61 m

Seafloor and sea temperature measured · ✳ dives modelled ·

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Deepest dive against the seafloor, per sighting

Seafloor · measured Deepest dive · modelled
Apr 29, 2021 — seafloor 226 m (measured), deepest dive 100 m (modelled)Apr 29May 16, 2021 — seafloor 322 m (measured), deepest dive 77 m (modelled)May 22, 2021 — seafloor 159 m (measured), deepest dive 93 m (modelled)May 22, 2021 — seafloor 45 m (measured), deepest dive 41 m (modelled)May 26, 2021 — seafloor 61 m (measured), deepest dive 56 m (modelled)May 27, 2021 — seafloor 50 m (measured), deepest dive 8 m (modelled)May 27Jun 3, 2021 — seafloor 52 m (measured), deepest dive 46 m (modelled)Jun 3, 2021 — seafloor 52 m (measured), deepest dive 35 m (modelled)Jun 6, 2021 — seafloor 70 m (measured), deepest dive 50 m (modelled)Jun 8, 2021 — seafloor 65 m (measured), deepest dive 49 m (modelled)Jun 9, 2021 — seafloor 71 m (measured), deepest dive 57 m (modelled)Jun 9Jun 16, 2021 — seafloor 567 m (measured), deepest dive 107 m (modelled)Jun 21, 2021 — seafloor 49 m (measured), deepest dive 18 m (modelled)Jul 4, 2021 — seafloor 77 m (measured), deepest dive 44 m (modelled)Jul 4, 2021 — seafloor 79 m (measured), deepest dive 43 m (modelled)Jul 4, 2021 — seafloor 104 m (measured), deepest dive 86 m (modelled)Jul 4Jul 5, 2021 — seafloor 26 m (measured), deepest dive 23 m (modelled)Jul 13, 2021 — seafloor 82 m (measured), deepest dive 61 m (modelled)Jul 13, 2021 — seafloor 567 m (measured), deepest dive 67 m (modelled)Jul 15, 2021 — seafloor 57 m (measured), deepest dive 52 m (modelled)Jul 16, 2021 — seafloor 87 m (measured), deepest dive 36 m (modelled)Jul 16Jul 17, 2021 — seafloor 254 m (measured), deepest dive 20 m (modelled)Jul 17, 2021 — seafloor 461 m (measured), deepest dive 126 m (modelled)Jul 22, 2021 — seafloor 141 m (measured), deepest dive 81 m (modelled)Jul 24, 2021 — seafloor 137 m (measured), deepest dive 74 m (modelled)Jul 26, 2021 — seafloor 92 m (measured), deepest dive 55 m (modelled)Jul 26Aug 15, 2021 — seafloor 78 m (measured), deepest dive 48 m (modelled)Aug 17, 2021 — seafloor 157 m (measured), deepest dive 122 m (modelled)Aug 17, 2021 — seafloor 158 m (measured), deepest dive 80 m (modelled)Aug 19, 2021 — seafloor 161 m (measured), deepest dive 87 m (modelled)

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

Dives

126 m
Deepest dive
5:39
Longest dive
354
Dives
24 m
Avg dive depth
30
Sightings
112
Days first → last

Dive metrics are modelled within real depth limits — not measured

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Dive profile

modelled
075150126 mstartdive sequence (illustrative)

Depth shaped by the seafloor limit here (461 m) and the published dive-behaviour distribution. Modelled, not measured.

Deep Effort Score

Deep

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Place

Where this happened · Jul 17, 2021

measured
Seafloor depth
461 m
Sea-surface temperature
14.1°C
Distance from shore
9.0 km

Across the residency · 30 sightings

measured
Seafloor depth
26 m – 567 m
Sea-surface temperature
11.3°C – 16.3°C
Distance from shore
1.0 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 30 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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