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Monterey Bay

Ola de Cola – Residency

79th sighting in Monterey Bay
Fluke of Ola de Cola
Ola de Cola Confirmed in the catalog @125732
Apr 26 – Oct 15, 2026 · Monterey Bay

Same Water, Small Shadow

Calf at my side, canyon lip below — I keep coming back.

402 m
Deepest dive
14:21
Longest dive
300
Dives
Sightings
24
Days between first and last sighting
172
Deepest dive on record
402 m · this residency

Dive stats modelled within real depth limits — not measured

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SightingSeafloorSea tempDeepest dive (modelled)
Apr 26, 2026113 m13.8°C84 m
Apr 26, 2026948 m13.9°C195 m
May 2, 20261,517 m13.5°C107 m
May 6, 2026294 m14.0°C104 m
Jun 21, 2026145 m16.6°C54 m
Jun 22, 2026494 m16.6°C402 m
Aug 25, 2026120 m16.6°C49 m
Aug 26, 2026137 m16.8°C59 m
Aug 30, 202682 m15.2°C48 m
Aug 31, 2026193 m15.3°C127 m
Sep 1, 2026259 m15.2°C77 m
Sep 2, 202674 m15.3°C67 m
Sep 3, 2026239 m15.3°C123 m
Sep 7, 2026238 m15.7°C40 m
Sep 8, 202693 m16.0°C41 m
Sep 9, 2026110 m15.8°C39 m
Sep 15, 2026151 m16.4°C89 m
Sep 16, 2026272 m15.6°C125 m

Seafloor and sea temperature measured · ✳ dives modelled ·

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Deepest dive against the seafloor, per sighting

Seafloor · measured Deepest dive · modelled
Apr 26, 2026 — seafloor 113 m (measured), deepest dive 84 m (modelled)Apr 26Apr 26, 2026 — seafloor 948 m (measured), deepest dive 195 m (modelled)May 2, 2026 — seafloor 1,517 m (measured), deepest dive 107 m (modelled)May 6, 2026 — seafloor 294 m (measured), deepest dive 104 m (modelled)Jun 21, 2026 — seafloor 145 m (measured), deepest dive 54 m (modelled)Jun 21Jun 22, 2026 — seafloor 494 m (measured), deepest dive 402 m (modelled)Aug 25, 2026 — seafloor 120 m (measured), deepest dive 49 m (modelled)Aug 26, 2026 — seafloor 137 m (measured), deepest dive 59 m (modelled)Aug 30, 2026 — seafloor 82 m (measured), deepest dive 48 m (modelled)Aug 30Aug 31, 2026 — seafloor 193 m (measured), deepest dive 127 m (modelled)Sep 1, 2026 — seafloor 259 m (measured), deepest dive 77 m (modelled)Sep 2, 2026 — seafloor 74 m (measured), deepest dive 67 m (modelled)Sep 3, 2026 — seafloor 239 m (measured), deepest dive 123 m (modelled)Sep 3Sep 7, 2026 — seafloor 238 m (measured), deepest dive 40 m (modelled)Sep 8, 2026 — seafloor 93 m (measured), deepest dive 41 m (modelled)Sep 9, 2026 — seafloor 110 m (measured), deepest dive 39 m (modelled)Sep 15, 2026 — seafloor 151 m (measured), deepest dive 89 m (modelled)Sep 15Sep 16, 2026 — seafloor 272 m (measured), deepest dive 125 m (modelled)Sep 22, 2026 — seafloor 24 m (measured), deepest dive 20 m (modelled)Sep 25, 2026 — seafloor 375 m (measured), deepest dive 93 m (modelled)Sep 26, 2026 — seafloor 78 m (measured), deepest dive 41 m (modelled)Sep 26Sep 28, 2026 — seafloor 71 m (measured), deepest dive 48 m (modelled)Oct 12, 2026 — seafloor 567 m (measured), deepest dive 54 m (modelled)Oct 15, 2026 — seafloor 60 m (measured), deepest dive 43 m (modelled)

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

Dives

402 m
Deepest dive
14:21
Longest dive
300
Dives
28 m
Avg dive depth
24
Sightings
172
Days first → last

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Dive profile

modelled
0225450402 mstartdive sequence (illustrative)

Depth shaped by the seafloor limit here (494 m) and the published dive-behaviour distribution. Modelled, not measured.

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Deep

Depth, duration and recovery resolved into a single number for this session.

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Place

Where this happened · Jun 22, 2026

measured
Seafloor depth
494 m
Sea-surface temperature
16.6°C
Distance from shore
8.0 km

Across the residency · 24 sightings

measured
Seafloor depth
24 m – 1,517 m
Sea-surface temperature
13.5°C – 17.6°C
Distance from shore
2.0 km – 16.0 km

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

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Source records

This activity is assembled from 24 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.

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