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Monterey Bay

Cool Hand Fluke – Residency

24th sighting in Monterey Bay
Fluke of Cool Hand Fluke
Cool Hand Fluke Confirmed in the catalog @113813
Jul 4 – Oct 21, 2025 · Monterey Bay

Monterey Bay · Jul – Oct 2025

151 m
Deepest dive
4:46
Longest dive
85
Dives
Sightings
6
Days between first and last sighting
109
Deepest dive on record
151 m · this residency

Dive stats modelled within real depth limits — not measured

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SightingSeafloorSea tempDeepest dive (modelled)
Jul 4, 202578 m—43 m
Sep 16, 2025503 m—137 m
Sep 16, 2025143 m—86 m
Sep 16, 2025191 m—151 m
Oct 20, 2025160 m—62 m
Oct 21, 2025178 m—55 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 4, 2025 — seafloor 78 m (measured), deepest dive 43 m (modelled)Jul 4Sep 16, 2025 — seafloor 503 m (measured), deepest dive 137 m (modelled)Sep 16Sep 16, 2025 — seafloor 143 m (measured), deepest dive 86 m (modelled)Sep 16Sep 16, 2025 — seafloor 191 m (measured), deepest dive 151 m (modelled)Sep 16Oct 20, 2025 — seafloor 160 m (measured), deepest dive 62 m (modelled)Oct 20Oct 21, 2025 — seafloor 178 m (measured), deepest dive 55 m (modelled)Oct 21

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

Dives

151 m
Deepest dive
4:46
Longest dive
85
Dives
29 m
Avg dive depth
6
Sightings
109
Days first → last

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Dive profile

modelled
0100200151 mstartdive sequence (illustrative)

Depth shaped by the seafloor limit here (191 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 16, 2025

measured
Seafloor depth
191 m
Sea-surface temperature
—
Distance from shore
3.0 km

Across the residency · 6 sightings

measured
Seafloor depth
78 m – 503 m
Sea-surface temperature
—
Distance from shore
3.0 km – 11.0 km

Sources: GEBCO seafloor grid · PacIOOS coastline distance

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Source records

This activity is assembled from 6 catalogued encounters on Happywhale.

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