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Monterey Bay

Flopsy – Residency

127th sighting in Monterey Bay
Fluke of Flopsy
Flopsy Confirmed in the catalog @1392
Jul 6 – Oct 10, 2026 · Monterey Bay

Summer in the Bay

Cameras out again this July—these waters know my fluke by heart.

162 m
Deepest dive
4:38
Longest dive
172
Dives
Sightings
11
Days between first and last sighting
96

Dive stats modelled within real depth limits — not measured

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SightingSeafloorSea tempDeepest dive (modelled)
Jul 6, 202679 m16.2°C48 m
Jul 13, 202681 m16.8°C71 m
Jul 17, 202675 m15.6°C49 m
Jul 18, 202667 m15.4°C59 m
Jul 23, 2026567 m16.9°C124 m
Sep 30, 2026147 m16.6°C86 m
Oct 4, 2026197 m17.9°C162 m
Oct 5, 2026146 m17.8°C53 m
Oct 7, 202686 m18.3°C56 m
Oct 9, 202672 m17.8°C57 m
Oct 10, 2026171 m17.3°C46 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 6, 2026 — seafloor 79 m (measured), deepest dive 48 m (modelled)Jul 6Jul 13, 2026 — seafloor 81 m (measured), deepest dive 71 m (modelled)Jul 13Jul 17, 2026 — seafloor 75 m (measured), deepest dive 49 m (modelled)Jul 17Jul 18, 2026 — seafloor 67 m (measured), deepest dive 59 m (modelled)Jul 18Jul 23, 2026 — seafloor 567 m (measured), deepest dive 124 m (modelled)Jul 23Sep 30, 2026 — seafloor 147 m (measured), deepest dive 86 m (modelled)Sep 30Oct 4, 2026 — seafloor 197 m (measured), deepest dive 162 m (modelled)Oct 4Oct 5, 2026 — seafloor 146 m (measured), deepest dive 53 m (modelled)Oct 5Oct 7, 2026 — seafloor 86 m (measured), deepest dive 56 m (modelled)Oct 7Oct 9, 2026 — seafloor 72 m (measured), deepest dive 57 m (modelled)Oct 9Oct 10, 2026 — seafloor 171 m (measured), deepest dive 46 m (modelled)Oct 10

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

Dives

162 m
Deepest dive
4:38
Longest dive
172
Dives
28 m
Avg dive depth
11
Sightings
96
Days first → last

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Dive profile

modelled
0100200162 mstartdive sequence (illustrative)

Depth shaped by the seafloor limit here (197 m) and the published dive-behaviour distribution. Modelled, not measured.

Deep Effort Score

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Place

Where this happened · Oct 4, 2026

measured
Seafloor depth
197 m
Sea-surface temperature
17.9°C
Distance from shore
7.0 km

Across the residency · 11 sightings

measured
Seafloor depth
67 m – 567 m
Sea-surface temperature
15.4°C – 18.3°C
Distance from shore
2.0 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 11 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.

The photographs and fluke identifications behind every sighting are the work of the contributing observers — the citizen scientists, naturalists and operators who logged them, each named in the underlying GBIF occurrence record. Every activity links out to its source encounters on Happywhale. Basemaps © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL).

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