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Monterey Bay

2022-2023 calf of CRC-17327 – Residency

22nd sighting in Monterey Bay
Fluke of 2022-2023 calf of CRC-17327
2022-2023 calf of CRC-17327 Confirmed in the catalog @106672
May 15 – Sep 14, 2026 · Monterey Bay

Same Bay, Same Shelf

Summer stretched long here, still nowhere else to be.

171 m
Deepest dive
7:21
Longest dive
150
Dives
Sightings
10
Days between first and last sighting
121
Deepest dive on record
171 m · this residency

Dive stats modelled within real depth limits — not measured

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SightingSeafloorSea tempDeepest dive (modelled)
May 15, 202677 m11.8°C64 m
May 20, 202667 m11.7°C42 m
May 21, 202669 m11.6°C62 m
Aug 19, 2026301 m17.5°C62 m
Aug 20, 2026137 m16.9°C24 m
Sep 3, 202693 m15.3°C26 m
Sep 5, 2026110 m16.0°C73 m
Sep 6, 2026328 m15.5°C171 m
Sep 8, 202695 m15.8°C85 m
Sep 14, 2026211 m16.2°C72 m

Seafloor and sea temperature measured · ✳ dives modelled

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Deepest dive against the seafloor, per sighting

Seafloor · measured Deepest dive · modelled
May 15, 2026 — seafloor 77 m (measured), deepest dive 64 m (modelled)May 15May 20, 2026 — seafloor 67 m (measured), deepest dive 42 m (modelled)May 20May 21, 2026 — seafloor 69 m (measured), deepest dive 62 m (modelled)May 21Aug 19, 2026 — seafloor 301 m (measured), deepest dive 62 m (modelled)Aug 19Aug 20, 2026 — seafloor 137 m (measured), deepest dive 24 m (modelled)Aug 20Sep 3, 2026 — seafloor 93 m (measured), deepest dive 26 m (modelled)Sep 3Sep 5, 2026 — seafloor 110 m (measured), deepest dive 73 m (modelled)Sep 5Sep 6, 2026 — seafloor 328 m (measured), deepest dive 171 m (modelled)Sep 6Sep 8, 2026 — seafloor 95 m (measured), deepest dive 85 m (modelled)Sep 8Sep 14, 2026 — seafloor 211 m (measured), deepest dive 72 m (modelled)Sep 14

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

Dives

171 m
Deepest dive
7:21
Longest dive
150
Dives
24 m
Avg dive depth
10
Sightings
121
Days first → last

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Dive profile

modelled
0100200171 mstartdive sequence (illustrative)

Depth shaped by the seafloor limit here (328 m) and the published dive-behaviour distribution. Modelled, not measured.

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Place

Where this happened · Sep 6, 2026

measured
Seafloor depth
328 m
Sea-surface temperature
15.5°C
Distance from shore
6.0 km

Across the residency · 10 sightings

measured
Seafloor depth
67 m – 328 m
Sea-surface temperature
11.6°C – 17.5°C
Distance from shore
3.0 km – 10.0 km

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

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Source records

This activity is assembled from 10 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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