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Monterey Bay

Motitas – Residency

53rd sighting in Monterey Bay
Fluke of Motitas
Motitas Confirmed in the catalog @959
Apr 3 – Jul 29, 2022 · Monterey Bay

Monterey Bay · Apr – Jul 2022

89 m
Deepest dive
3:59
Longest dive
111
Dives
Sightings
11
Days between first and last sighting
117

Dive stats modelled within real depth limits — not measured

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SightingSeafloorSea tempDeepest dive (modelled)
Apr 3, 202284 m11.2°C63 m
Apr 3, 2022567 m11.0°C89 m
May 20, 2022235 m11.2°C66 m
May 20, 2022312 m11.3°C67 m
May 30, 202285 m11.7°C65 m
Jul 2, 202274 m13.5°C67 m
Jul 3, 2022108 m13.1°C89 m
Jul 20, 202292 m15.0°C34 m
Jul 23, 202285 m15.1°C77 m
Jul 25, 2022761 m14.7°C48 m
Jul 29, 2022116 m14.3°C40 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 3, 2022 — seafloor 84 m (measured), deepest dive 63 m (modelled)Apr 3Apr 3, 2022 — seafloor 567 m (measured), deepest dive 89 m (modelled)Apr 3May 20, 2022 — seafloor 235 m (measured), deepest dive 66 m (modelled)May 20May 20, 2022 — seafloor 312 m (measured), deepest dive 67 m (modelled)May 20May 30, 2022 — seafloor 85 m (measured), deepest dive 65 m (modelled)May 30Jul 2, 2022 — seafloor 74 m (measured), deepest dive 67 m (modelled)Jul 2Jul 3, 2022 — seafloor 108 m (measured), deepest dive 89 m (modelled)Jul 3Jul 20, 2022 — seafloor 92 m (measured), deepest dive 34 m (modelled)Jul 20Jul 23, 2022 — seafloor 85 m (measured), deepest dive 77 m (modelled)Jul 23Jul 25, 2022 — seafloor 761 m (measured), deepest dive 48 m (modelled)Jul 25Jul 29, 2022 — seafloor 116 m (measured), deepest dive 40 m (modelled)Jul 29

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

Dives

89 m
Deepest dive
3:59
Longest dive
111
Dives
24 m
Avg dive depth
11
Sightings
117
Days first → last

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Dive profile

modelled
05010089 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 · Apr 3, 2022

measured
Seafloor depth
567 m
Sea-surface temperature
11.0°C
Distance from shore
16.0 km

Across the residency · 11 sightings

measured
Seafloor depth
74 m – 761 m
Sea-surface temperature
11.0°C – 15.1°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 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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