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Monterey Bay

CRC-21778 – Residency

15th sighting in Monterey Bay
Fluke of CRC-21778
CRC-21778 Confirmed in the catalog @106656
Sep 22 – Oct 2, 2026 · Monterey Bay

Farallones, Early Autumn

Cold water, good company, another September logged in the Gulf.

82 m
Deepest dive
2:52
Longest dive
73
Dives
Sightings
4
Days between first and last sighting
10

Dive stats modelled within real depth limits — not measured

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SightingSeafloorSea tempDeepest dive (modelled)
Sep 22, 202610 m—9 m
Sep 28, 202689 m—82 m
Sep 29, 2026140 m—46 m
Oct 2, 202653 m—27 m

Seafloor and sea temperature measured · ✳ dives modelled

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Deepest dive against the seafloor, per sighting

Seafloor · measured Deepest dive · modelled
Sep 22, 2026 — seafloor 10 m (measured), deepest dive 9 m (modelled)Sep 22Sep 28, 2026 — seafloor 89 m (measured), deepest dive 82 m (modelled)Sep 28Sep 29, 2026 — seafloor 140 m (measured), deepest dive 46 m (modelled)Sep 29Oct 2, 2026 — seafloor 53 m (measured), deepest dive 27 m (modelled)Oct 2

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

Dives

82 m
Deepest dive
2:52
Longest dive
73
Dives
17 m
Avg dive depth
4
Sightings
10
Days first → last

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Dive profile

modelled
05010082 mstartdive sequence (illustrative)

Depth shaped by the seafloor limit here (89 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 · Sep 28, 2026

measured
Seafloor depth
89 m
Sea-surface temperature
—
Distance from shore
2.0 km

Across the residency · 4 sightings

measured
Seafloor depth
10 m – 140 m
Sea-surface temperature
—
Distance from shore
2.0 km – 9.0 km

Sources: GEBCO seafloor grid · PacIOOS coastline distance

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Source records

This activity is assembled from 4 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.

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