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Monterey Bay

Ascension – Residency

54th sighting in Monterey Bay
Fluke of Ascension
Ascension Confirmed in the catalog @130079
May 22 – Jul 6, 2026 · Monterey Bay

Bay's Own Rhythm

Early summer feed drew me up again and again — this water knows me well.

75 m
Deepest dive
3:17
Longest dive
105
Dives
Sightings
6
Days between first and last sighting
44

Dive stats modelled within real depth limits — not measured

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SightingSeafloorSea tempDeepest dive (modelled)
May 22, 202649 m11.8°C43 m
May 23, 202666 m12.3°C32 m
Jun 24, 202684 m16.5°C75 m
Jun 25, 202651 m16.7°C43 m
Jul 5, 2026254 m16.4°C46 m
Jul 6, 2026242 m16.4°C41 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 22, 2026 — seafloor 49 m (measured), deepest dive 43 m (modelled)May 22May 23, 2026 — seafloor 66 m (measured), deepest dive 32 m (modelled)May 23Jun 24, 2026 — seafloor 84 m (measured), deepest dive 75 m (modelled)Jun 24Jun 25, 2026 — seafloor 51 m (measured), deepest dive 43 m (modelled)Jun 25Jul 5, 2026 — seafloor 254 m (measured), deepest dive 46 m (modelled)Jul 5Jul 6, 2026 — seafloor 242 m (measured), deepest dive 41 m (modelled)Jul 6

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

Dives

75 m
Deepest dive
3:17
Longest dive
105
Dives
18 m
Avg dive depth
6
Sightings
44
Days first → last

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Dive profile

modelled
05010075 mstartdive sequence (illustrative)

Depth shaped by the seafloor limit here (84 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 · Jun 24, 2026

measured
Seafloor depth
84 m
Sea-surface temperature
16.5°C
Distance from shore
13.0 km

Across the residency · 6 sightings

measured
Seafloor depth
49 m – 254 m
Sea-surface temperature
11.8°C – 16.7°C
Distance from shore
2.0 km – 13.0 km

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

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Source records

This activity is assembled from 6 catalogued encounters on Happywhale.

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