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Monterey Bay

CRC-22786 – Residency

11th sighting in Monterey Bay
Fluke of CRC-22786
CRC-22786 Confirmed in the catalog @130115
Jun 12 – Sep 11, 2026 · Monterey Bay

Green Water, Every Summer

Monterey's cold water knows my name by now.

50 m
Deepest dive
2:28
Longest dive
49
Dives
Sightings
5
Days between first and last sighting
91

Dive stats modelled within real depth limits — not measured

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SightingSeafloorSea tempDeepest dive (modelled)
Jun 12, 202663 m14.6°C26 m
Jun 12, 202661 m13.2°C41 m
Jul 16, 2026158 m16.3°C50 m
Jul 18, 202667 m15.4°C49 m
Sep 11, 20266 m17.3°C5 m

Seafloor and sea temperature measured · ✳ dives modelled

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Deepest dive against the seafloor, per sighting

Seafloor · measured Deepest dive · modelled
Jun 12, 2026 — seafloor 63 m (measured), deepest dive 26 m (modelled)Jun 12Jun 12, 2026 — seafloor 61 m (measured), deepest dive 41 m (modelled)Jun 12Jul 16, 2026 — seafloor 158 m (measured), deepest dive 50 m (modelled)Jul 16Jul 18, 2026 — seafloor 67 m (measured), deepest dive 49 m (modelled)Jul 18Sep 11, 2026 — seafloor 6 m (measured), deepest dive 5 m (modelled)Sep 11

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

Dives

50 m
Deepest dive
2:28
Longest dive
49
Dives
17 m
Avg dive depth
5
Sightings
91
Days first → last

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Dive profile

modelled
05010050 mstartdive sequence (illustrative)

Depth shaped by the seafloor limit here (158 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 · Jul 16, 2026

measured
Seafloor depth
158 m
Sea-surface temperature
16.3°C
Distance from shore
3.0 km

Across the residency · 5 sightings

measured
Seafloor depth
6 m – 158 m
Sea-surface temperature
13.2°C – 17.3°C
Distance from shore
2.0 km – 3.0 km

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

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Source records

This activity is assembled from 5 catalogued encounters on Happywhale.

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