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Monterey Bay

CRC-21652 – Residency

15th sighting in Monterey Bay
Fluke of CRC-21652
CRC-21652 Confirmed in the catalog @104623
Aug 29 – Sep 19, 2026 · Monterey Bay

Same Bay, Late Summer

Back where the shelf drops off, faces changing, water familiar.

336 m
Deepest dive
9:09
Longest dive
156
Dives
Sightings
13
Days between first and last sighting
21
Deepest dive on record
336 m · this residency

Dive stats modelled within real depth limits — not measured

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SightingSeafloorSea tempDeepest dive (modelled)
Aug 29, 202668 m15.8°C48 m
Aug 31, 2026254 m15.4°C27 m
Sep 1, 2026253 m15.2°C72 m
Sep 2, 2026567 m15.3°C64 m
Sep 2, 2026186 m15.4°C116 m
Sep 3, 2026310 m15.3°C130 m
Sep 4, 2026504 m15.6°C336 m
Sep 5, 2026110 m16.0°C73 m
Sep 5, 2026567 m15.6°C44 m
Sep 7, 202694 m15.6°C31 m
Sep 13, 2026188 m—103 m
Sep 15, 2026255 m16.4°C77 m
Sep 19, 2026238 m—98 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 29, 2026 — seafloor 68 m (measured), deepest dive 48 m (modelled)Aug 29Aug 31, 2026 — seafloor 254 m (measured), deepest dive 27 m (modelled)Sep 1, 2026 — seafloor 253 m (measured), deepest dive 72 m (modelled)Sep 2, 2026 — seafloor 567 m (measured), deepest dive 64 m (modelled)Sep 2Sep 2, 2026 — seafloor 186 m (measured), deepest dive 116 m (modelled)Sep 3, 2026 — seafloor 310 m (measured), deepest dive 130 m (modelled)Sep 4, 2026 — seafloor 504 m (measured), deepest dive 336 m (modelled)Sep 4Sep 5, 2026 — seafloor 110 m (measured), deepest dive 73 m (modelled)Sep 5, 2026 — seafloor 567 m (measured), deepest dive 44 m (modelled)Sep 7, 2026 — seafloor 94 m (measured), deepest dive 31 m (modelled)Sep 7Sep 13, 2026 — seafloor 188 m (measured), deepest dive 103 m (modelled)Sep 15, 2026 — seafloor 255 m (measured), deepest dive 77 m (modelled)Sep 19, 2026 — seafloor 238 m (measured), deepest dive 98 m (modelled)Sep 19

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

Dives

336 m
Deepest dive
9:09
Longest dive
156
Dives
33 m
Avg dive depth
13
Sightings
21
Days first → last

Dive metrics are modelled within real depth limits — not measured

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Dive profile

modelled
0175350336 mstartdive sequence (illustrative)

Depth shaped by the seafloor limit here (504 m) and the published dive-behaviour distribution. Modelled, not measured.

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Place

Where this happened · Sep 4, 2026

measured
Seafloor depth
504 m
Sea-surface temperature
15.6°C
Distance from shore
10.0 km

Across the residency · 13 sightings

measured
Seafloor depth
68 m – 567 m
Sea-surface temperature
15.2°C – 16.4°C
Distance from shore
3.0 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 13 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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