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Monterey Bay

Faux Gun – Residency

10th sighting in Monterey Bay
Fluke of Faux Gun
Faux Gun Confirmed in the catalog @122297
Jan 10 – Oct 3, 2026 · Monterey Bay

Home Waters, Late Spring

Cold green water, my crowd around me, exactly where a whale belongs.

35 m
Deepest dive
1:44
Longest dive
92
Dives
Sightings
14
Days between first and last sighting
265

Dive stats modelled within real depth limits — not measured

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SightingSeafloorSea tempDeepest dive (modelled)
Jan 10, 202675 m14.2°C35 m
Jan 24, 202632 m14.0°C28 m
Feb 15, 202622 m16.2°C19 m
Apr 18, 202636 m18.2°C31 m
Jun 20, 202620 m15.3°C15 m
Jun 23, 2026-14 m15.7°C—
Aug 26, 2026-12 m——
Aug 27, 2026-13 m——
Aug 30, 20263 m15.8°C3 m
Sep 4, 202615 m15.5°C14 m
Sep 6, 2026-5 m——
Sep 9, 20261 m17.0°C1 m
Sep 19, 202623 m—20 m
Oct 3, 2026-29 m——

Seafloor and sea temperature measured · ✳ dives modelled

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Deepest dive against the seafloor, per sighting

Seafloor · measured Deepest dive · modelled
Jan 10, 2026 — seafloor 75 m (measured), deepest dive 35 m (modelled)Jan 10Jan 24, 2026 — seafloor 32 m (measured), deepest dive 28 m (modelled)Feb 15, 2026 — seafloor 22 m (measured), deepest dive 19 m (modelled)Apr 18, 2026 — seafloor 36 m (measured), deepest dive 31 m (modelled)Apr 18Jun 20, 2026 — seafloor 20 m (measured), deepest dive 15 m (modelled)Jun 23, 2026 — seafloor -14 m (measured), deepest dive — (modelled)Aug 26, 2026 — seafloor -12 m (measured), deepest dive — (modelled)Aug 26Aug 27, 2026 — seafloor -13 m (measured), deepest dive — (modelled)Aug 30, 2026 — seafloor 3 m (measured), deepest dive 3 m (modelled)Sep 4, 2026 — seafloor 15 m (measured), deepest dive 14 m (modelled)Sep 4Sep 6, 2026 — seafloor -5 m (measured), deepest dive — (modelled)Sep 9, 2026 — seafloor 1 m (measured), deepest dive 1 m (modelled)Sep 19, 2026 — seafloor 23 m (measured), deepest dive 20 m (modelled)Sep 19Oct 3, 2026 — seafloor -29 m (measured), deepest dive — (modelled)

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

Dives

35 m
Deepest dive
1:44
Longest dive
92
Dives
10 m
Avg dive depth
14
Sightings
265
Days first → last

Dive metrics are modelled within real depth limits — not measured

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Dive profile

modelled
0255035 mstartdive sequence (illustrative)

Depth shaped by the seafloor limit here (75 m) and the published dive-behaviour distribution. Modelled, not measured.

Deep Effort Score

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Place

Where this happened · Jan 10, 2026

measured
Seafloor depth
75 m
Sea-surface temperature
14.2°C
Distance from shore
11.0 km

Across the residency · 14 sightings

measured
Seafloor depth
-29 m – 75 m
Sea-surface temperature
14.0°C – 18.2°C
Distance from shore
1.0 km – 11.0 km

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

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Source records

This activity is assembled from 14 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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