Activity map — real sighting points on an OpenStreetMap basemap © OpenStreetMap contributors
Monterey Bay

CRC-22170 – Residency

11th sighting in Monterey Bay
Fluke of CRC-22170
CRC-22170 Confirmed in the catalog @123167
May 31 – Sep 3, 2026 · Monterey Bay

Same Cold Corner Again

Whole summer parked over the green shelf, glad for it.

95 m
Deepest dive
2:55
Longest dive
30
Dives
Sightings
4
Days between first and last sighting
94
Deepest dive on record
95 m · this residency

Dive stats modelled within real depth limits — not measured

Get actual dive data with Risa Deep →
SightingSeafloorSea tempDeepest dive (modelled)
May 31, 202675 m12.9°C54 m
Aug 9, 2026104 m17.0°C56 m
Sep 2, 202680 m15.3°C22 m
Sep 3, 2026312 m15.3°C95 m

Seafloor and sea temperature measured · ✳ dives modelled

Activity map — real sighting points on an OpenStreetMap basemap © OpenStreetMap contributors

Deepest dive against the seafloor, per sighting

Seafloor · measured Deepest dive · modelled
May 31, 2026 — seafloor 75 m (measured), deepest dive 54 m (modelled)May 31Aug 9, 2026 — seafloor 104 m (measured), deepest dive 56 m (modelled)Aug 9Sep 2, 2026 — seafloor 80 m (measured), deepest dive 22 m (modelled)Sep 2Sep 3, 2026 — seafloor 312 m (measured), deepest dive 95 m (modelled)Sep 3

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

Dives

95 m
Deepest dive
2:55
Longest dive
30
Dives
24 m
Avg dive depth
4
Sightings
94
Days first → last

Dive metrics are modelled within real depth limits — not measured

Get actual dive data with Risa Deep →

Dive profile

modelled
05010095 mstartdive sequence (illustrative)

Depth shaped by the seafloor limit here (312 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.

Unlock with Risa Deep

Place

Where this happened · Sep 3, 2026

measured
Seafloor depth
312 m
Sea-surface temperature
15.3°C
Distance from shore
5.0 km

Across the residency · 4 sightings

measured
Seafloor depth
75 m – 312 m
Sea-surface temperature
12.9°C – 17.0°C
Distance from shore
4.0 km – 9.0 km

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

Activity map — real sighting points on an OpenStreetMap basemap © OpenStreetMap contributors

Source records

This activity is assembled from 4 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).

Happywhale runs on donations: support Happywhale →

Breach is an independent project. It is not affiliated with, nor endorsed by, Happywhale or GBIF.