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Monterey Bay

1408 – Residency

10th sighting in Monterey Bay
Fluke of 1408
1408 Confirmed in the catalog @1408
Oct 2 – 8, 2026 · Monterey Bay

Canyon Feed, October Style

Upwelling's on, krill's thick, lenses found me plenty this month.

64 m
Deepest dive
2:09
Longest dive
34
Dives
Sightings
5
Days between first and last sighting
6

Dive stats modelled within real depth limits — not measured

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SightingSeafloorSea tempDeepest dive (modelled)
Oct 2, 2026254 m—62 m
Oct 3, 2026155 m—42 m
Oct 5, 2026287 m—43 m
Oct 8, 2026253 m—39 m
Oct 8, 2026252 m—64 m

Seafloor and sea temperature measured · ✳ dives modelled

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Deepest dive against the seafloor, per sighting

Seafloor · measured Deepest dive · modelled
Oct 2, 2026 — seafloor 254 m (measured), deepest dive 62 m (modelled)Oct 2Oct 3, 2026 — seafloor 155 m (measured), deepest dive 42 m (modelled)Oct 3Oct 5, 2026 — seafloor 287 m (measured), deepest dive 43 m (modelled)Oct 5Oct 8, 2026 — seafloor 253 m (measured), deepest dive 39 m (modelled)Oct 8Oct 8, 2026 — seafloor 252 m (measured), deepest dive 64 m (modelled)Oct 8

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

Dives

64 m
Deepest dive
2:09
Longest dive
34
Dives
25 m
Avg dive depth
5
Sightings
6
Days first → last

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Dive profile

modelled
05010064 mstartdive sequence (illustrative)

Depth shaped by the seafloor limit here (252 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 8, 2026

measured
Seafloor depth
252 m
Sea-surface temperature
—
Distance from shore
4.0 km

Across the residency · 5 sightings

measured
Seafloor depth
155 m – 287 m
Sea-surface temperature
—
Distance from shore
4.0 km – 5.0 km

Sources: GEBCO seafloor grid · PacIOOS coastline distance

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Source records

This activity is assembled from 5 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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