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Monterey Bay

CRC-11502 – Residency

32nd sighting in Monterey Bay
Fluke of CRC-11502
CRC-11502 Confirmed in the catalog @1308
Aug 15 – Sep 29, 2026 · Monterey Bay

The Shelf Delivers Again

Krill's up, water's cold, I'm exactly where I ought to be.

111 m
Deepest dive
4:07
Longest dive
123
Dives
Sightings
10
Days between first and last sighting
45

Dive stats modelled within real depth limits — not measured

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SightingSeafloorSea tempDeepest dive (modelled)
Aug 15, 2026567 m16.7°C104 m
Aug 16, 2026567 m16.6°C85 m
Sep 15, 2026225 m16.5°C90 m
Sep 18, 2026175 m15.7°C26 m
Sep 19, 2026238 m16.3°C111 m
Sep 20, 202689 m16.5°C66 m
Sep 25, 202684 m16.5°C48 m
Sep 27, 2026201 m16.6°C78 m
Sep 28, 202673 m16.7°C24 m
Sep 29, 2026162 m16.7°C50 m

Seafloor and sea temperature measured · ✳ dives modelled

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Deepest dive against the seafloor, per sighting

Seafloor · measured Deepest dive · modelled
Aug 15, 2026 — seafloor 567 m (measured), deepest dive 104 m (modelled)Aug 15Aug 16, 2026 — seafloor 567 m (measured), deepest dive 85 m (modelled)Aug 16Sep 15, 2026 — seafloor 225 m (measured), deepest dive 90 m (modelled)Sep 15Sep 18, 2026 — seafloor 175 m (measured), deepest dive 26 m (modelled)Sep 18Sep 19, 2026 — seafloor 238 m (measured), deepest dive 111 m (modelled)Sep 19Sep 20, 2026 — seafloor 89 m (measured), deepest dive 66 m (modelled)Sep 20Sep 25, 2026 — seafloor 84 m (measured), deepest dive 48 m (modelled)Sep 25Sep 27, 2026 — seafloor 201 m (measured), deepest dive 78 m (modelled)Sep 27Sep 28, 2026 — seafloor 73 m (measured), deepest dive 24 m (modelled)Sep 28Sep 29, 2026 — seafloor 162 m (measured), deepest dive 50 m (modelled)Sep 29

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

Dives

111 m
Deepest dive
4:07
Longest dive
123
Dives
26 m
Avg dive depth
10
Sightings
45
Days first → last

Dive metrics are modelled within real depth limits — not measured

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Dive profile

modelled
075150111 mstartdive sequence (illustrative)

Depth shaped by the seafloor limit here (238 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 19, 2026

measured
Seafloor depth
238 m
Sea-surface temperature
16.3°C
Distance from shore
4.0 km

Across the residency · 10 sightings

measured
Seafloor depth
73 m – 567 m
Sea-surface temperature
15.7°C – 16.7°C
Distance from shore
3.0 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 10 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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