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Monterey Bay

Swoosh – Residency

112th sighting in Monterey Bay
Fluke of Swoosh
Swoosh Confirmed in the catalog @11
Jul 7 – Nov 9, 2025 · Monterey Bay

Summer in the Bay

Four months drifting these familiar waters, surfacing where the krill runs thick.

73 m
Deepest dive
2:50
Longest dive
95
Dives
Sightings
8
Days between first and last sighting
125

Dive stats modelled within real depth limits — not measured

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SightingSeafloorSea tempDeepest dive (modelled)
Jul 7, 202563 m13.8°C52 m
Jul 10, 202572 m13.3°C41 m
Jul 10, 202554 m13.3°C47 m
Jul 11, 202553 m13.0°C37 m
Oct 8, 202596 m17.1°C73 m
Nov 4, 202569 m15.1°C60 m
Nov 8, 202581 m15.3°C73 m
Nov 9, 202581 m15.0°C57 m

Seafloor and sea temperature measured · ✳ dives modelled

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Deepest dive against the seafloor, per sighting

Seafloor · measured Deepest dive · modelled
Jul 7, 2025 — seafloor 63 m (measured), deepest dive 52 m (modelled)Jul 7Jul 10, 2025 — seafloor 72 m (measured), deepest dive 41 m (modelled)Jul 10Jul 10, 2025 — seafloor 54 m (measured), deepest dive 47 m (modelled)Jul 10Jul 11, 2025 — seafloor 53 m (measured), deepest dive 37 m (modelled)Jul 11Oct 8, 2025 — seafloor 96 m (measured), deepest dive 73 m (modelled)Oct 8Nov 4, 2025 — seafloor 69 m (measured), deepest dive 60 m (modelled)Nov 4Nov 8, 2025 — seafloor 81 m (measured), deepest dive 73 m (modelled)Nov 8Nov 9, 2025 — seafloor 81 m (measured), deepest dive 57 m (modelled)Nov 9

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

Dives

73 m
Deepest dive
2:50
Longest dive
95
Dives
23 m
Avg dive depth
8
Sightings
125
Days first → last

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Dive profile

modelled
05010073 mstartdive sequence (illustrative)

Depth shaped by the seafloor limit here (81 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 · Nov 8, 2025

measured
Seafloor depth
81 m
Sea-surface temperature
15.3°C
Distance from shore
10.0 km

Across the residency · 8 sightings

measured
Seafloor depth
53 m – 96 m
Sea-surface temperature
13.0°C – 17.1°C
Distance from shore
3.0 km – 11.0 km

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

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Source records

This activity is assembled from 8 catalogued encounters on Happywhale.

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