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Monterey Bay

CRC-15874 – Residency

47th sighting in Monterey Bay
Fluke of CRC-15874
CRC-15874 Confirmed in the catalog @1394
Jun 23 – Oct 8, 2025 · Monterey Bay

Monterey Bay · Jun – Oct 2025

69 m
Deepest dive
3:17
Longest dive
35
Dives
Sightings
4
Days between first and last sighting
107

Dive stats modelled within real depth limits — not measured

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SightingSeafloorSea tempDeepest dive (modelled)
Jun 23, 202582 m12.7°C52 m
Aug 26, 202588 m13.1°C50 m
Aug 26, 202582 m13.1°C69 m
Oct 8, 202596 m17.1°C13 m

Seafloor and sea temperature measured · ✳ dives modelled

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Deepest dive against the seafloor, per sighting

Seafloor · measured Deepest dive · modelled
Jun 23, 2025 — seafloor 82 m (measured), deepest dive 52 m (modelled)Jun 23Aug 26, 2025 — seafloor 88 m (measured), deepest dive 50 m (modelled)Aug 26Aug 26, 2025 — seafloor 82 m (measured), deepest dive 69 m (modelled)Aug 26Oct 8, 2025 — seafloor 96 m (measured), deepest dive 13 m (modelled)Oct 8

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

Dives

69 m
Deepest dive
3:17
Longest dive
35
Dives
17 m
Avg dive depth
4
Sightings
107
Days first → last

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Dive profile

modelled
05010069 mstartdive sequence (illustrative)

Depth shaped by the seafloor limit here (82 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 · Aug 26, 2025

measured
Seafloor depth
82 m
Sea-surface temperature
13.1°C
Distance from shore
5.0 km

Across the residency · 4 sightings

measured
Seafloor depth
82 m – 96 m
Sea-surface temperature
12.7°C – 17.1°C
Distance from shore
3.0 km – 11.0 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.

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