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Monterey Bay

CRC-22176 – Residency

42nd sighting in Monterey Bay
Fluke of CRC-22176
CRC-22176 Confirmed in the catalog @123224
Jul 5 – Sep 17, 2026 · Monterey Bay

Monterey, Late Summer Lunges

Shelf drops, krill piles up, I just keep feeding.

91 m
Deepest dive
4:01
Longest dive
52
Dives
Sightings
4
Days between first and last sighting
74

Dive stats modelled within real depth limits — not measured

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SightingSeafloorSea tempDeepest dive (modelled)
Jul 5, 202631 m16.4°C28 m
Aug 5, 202666 m17.1°C55 m
Aug 7, 202674 m17.5°C60 m
Sep 17, 2026194 m15.6°C91 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 5, 2026 — seafloor 31 m (measured), deepest dive 28 m (modelled)Jul 5Aug 5, 2026 — seafloor 66 m (measured), deepest dive 55 m (modelled)Aug 5Aug 7, 2026 — seafloor 74 m (measured), deepest dive 60 m (modelled)Aug 7Sep 17, 2026 — seafloor 194 m (measured), deepest dive 91 m (modelled)Sep 17

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

Dives

91 m
Deepest dive
4:01
Longest dive
52
Dives
25 m
Avg dive depth
4
Sightings
74
Days first → last

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Dive profile

modelled
05010091 mstartdive sequence (illustrative)

Depth shaped by the seafloor limit here (194 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 17, 2026

measured
Seafloor depth
194 m
Sea-surface temperature
15.6°C
Distance from shore
4.0 km

Across the residency · 4 sightings

measured
Seafloor depth
31 m – 194 m
Sea-surface temperature
15.6°C – 17.5°C
Distance from shore
3.0 km – 10.0 km

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

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Source records

This activity is assembled from 4 catalogued encounters on Happywhale.

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