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Monterey Bay

CRC-12114 – Residency

17th sighting in Monterey Bay
Fluke of CRC-12114
CRC-12114 Confirmed in the catalog @1310
Jul 16 – Oct 13, 2024 · Monterey Bay

Summer in the Bay

Three months drifting these familiar waters, surfacing where the currents feel like home.

74 m
Deepest dive
2:34
Longest dive
39
Dives
Sightings
4
Days between first and last sighting
89

Dive stats modelled within real depth limits — not measured

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SightingSeafloorSea tempDeepest dive (modelled)
Jul 16, 2024131 m15.4°C69 m
Jul 24, 202474 m16.7°C47 m
Sep 14, 202496 m14.8°C40 m
Oct 13, 2024282 m18.3°C74 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 16, 2024 — seafloor 131 m (measured), deepest dive 69 m (modelled)Jul 16Jul 24, 2024 — seafloor 74 m (measured), deepest dive 47 m (modelled)Jul 24Sep 14, 2024 — seafloor 96 m (measured), deepest dive 40 m (modelled)Sep 14Oct 13, 2024 — seafloor 282 m (measured), deepest dive 74 m (modelled)Oct 13

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

Dives

74 m
Deepest dive
2:34
Longest dive
39
Dives
27 m
Avg dive depth
4
Sightings
89
Days first → last

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Dive profile

modelled
05010074 mstartdive sequence (illustrative)

Depth shaped by the seafloor limit here (282 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 · Oct 13, 2024

measured
Seafloor depth
282 m
Sea-surface temperature
18.3°C
Distance from shore
15.0 km

Across the residency · 4 sightings

measured
Seafloor depth
74 m – 282 m
Sea-surface temperature
14.8°C – 18.3°C
Distance from shore
7.0 km – 15.0 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.

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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