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Monterey Bay

CRC-21012 – Residency

4th sighting in Monterey Bay
Fluke of CRC-21012
CRC-21012 Confirmed in the catalog @115488
May 6 – Jun 23, 2026 · Monterey Bay

Green Water, Good Company

Cliffs on the horizon, feed below, old neighbors nearby — spring done right.

118 m
Deepest dive
4:52
Longest dive
16
Dives
Sightings
3
Days between first and last sighting
48
Deepest dive on record
118 m · this residency

Dive stats modelled within real depth limits — not measured

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SightingSeafloorSea tempDeepest dive (modelled)
May 6, 2026232 m14.0°C118 m
Jun 23, 202614 m15.7°C12 m
Jun 23, 2026-13 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 6, 2026 — seafloor 232 m (measured), deepest dive 118 m (modelled)May 6Jun 23, 2026 — seafloor 14 m (measured), deepest dive 12 m (modelled)Jun 23Jun 23, 2026 — seafloor -13 m (measured), deepest dive — (modelled)Jun 23

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

Dives

118 m
Deepest dive
4:52
Longest dive
16
Dives
20 m
Avg dive depth
3
Sightings
48
Days first → last

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Dive profile

modelled
075150118 mstartdive sequence (illustrative)

Depth shaped by the seafloor limit here (232 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 · May 6, 2026

measured
Seafloor depth
232 m
Sea-surface temperature
14.0°C
Distance from shore
6.0 km

Across the residency · 3 sightings

measured
Seafloor depth
-13 m – 232 m
Sea-surface temperature
14.0°C – 15.7°C
Distance from shore
1.0 km – 6.0 km

Sources: GEBCO seafloor grid · NOAA OISST sea temperature · PacIOOS coastline distance

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Source records

This activity is assembled from 3 catalogued encounters on Happywhale.

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