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Monterey Bay

Rainbow – Residency

19th sighting in Monterey Bay
Fluke of Rainbow
Rainbow Confirmed in the catalog @1374
Jul 25 – Nov 2, 2025 · Monterey Bay

Monterey Bay · Jul – Nov 2025

56 m
Deepest dive
2:43
Longest dive
40
Dives
Sightings
4
Days between first and last sighting
100

Dive stats modelled within real depth limits — not measured

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SightingSeafloorSea tempDeepest dive (modelled)
Jul 25, 202547 m—41 m
Aug 30, 202547 m—42 m
Oct 30, 202531 m—19 m
Nov 2, 2025817 m—56 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 25, 2025 — seafloor 47 m (measured), deepest dive 41 m (modelled)Jul 25Aug 30, 2025 — seafloor 47 m (measured), deepest dive 42 m (modelled)Aug 30Oct 30, 2025 — seafloor 31 m (measured), deepest dive 19 m (modelled)Oct 30Nov 2, 2025 — seafloor 817 m (measured), deepest dive 56 m (modelled)Nov 2

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

Dives

56 m
Deepest dive
2:43
Longest dive
40
Dives
21 m
Avg dive depth
4
Sightings
100
Days first → last

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Dive profile

modelled
05010056 mstartdive sequence (illustrative)

Depth shaped by the seafloor limit here (817 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 · Nov 2, 2025

measured
Seafloor depth
817 m
Sea-surface temperature
—
Distance from shore
6.0 km

Across the residency · 4 sightings

measured
Seafloor depth
31 m – 817 m
Sea-surface temperature
—
Distance from shore
1.0 km – 6.0 km

Sources: GEBCO seafloor grid · PacIOOS coastline distance

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Source records

This activity is assembled from 4 catalogued encounters on Happywhale.

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