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Monterey Bay

CRC-15489 – Residency

50th sighting in Monterey Bay
Fluke of CRC-15489
CRC-15489 Confirmed in the catalog @1362
Sep 23 – 29, 2026 · Monterey Bay

Canyon Edge, Right on Time

Cold water, crowded surface, that lens finding me twice this month.

85 m
Deepest dive
3:34
Longest dive
22
Dives
Sightings
3
Days between first and last sighting
6

Dive stats modelled within real depth limits — not measured

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SightingSeafloorSea tempDeepest dive (modelled)
Sep 23, 2026109 m17.0°C36 m
Sep 28, 2026298 m16.6°C21 m
Sep 29, 2026140 m16.7°C85 m

Seafloor and sea temperature measured · ✳ dives modelled

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Deepest dive against the seafloor, per sighting

Seafloor · measured Deepest dive · modelled
Sep 23, 2026 — seafloor 109 m (measured), deepest dive 36 m (modelled)Sep 23Sep 28, 2026 — seafloor 298 m (measured), deepest dive 21 m (modelled)Sep 28Sep 29, 2026 — seafloor 140 m (measured), deepest dive 85 m (modelled)Sep 29

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

Dives

85 m
Deepest dive
3:34
Longest dive
22
Dives
20 m
Avg dive depth
3
Sightings
6
Days first → last

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Dive profile

modelled
05010085 mstartdive sequence (illustrative)

Depth shaped by the seafloor limit here (140 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 29, 2026

measured
Seafloor depth
140 m
Sea-surface temperature
16.7°C
Distance from shore
2.0 km

Across the residency · 3 sightings

measured
Seafloor depth
109 m – 298 m
Sea-surface temperature
16.6°C – 17.0°C
Distance from shore
2.0 km – 8.0 km

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

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Source records

This activity is assembled from 3 catalogued encounters on Happywhale.

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