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Monterey Bay

HW-MN0503829 – Residency

4th sighting in Monterey Bay
Fluke of HW-MN0503829
HW-MN0503829 Confirmed in the catalog @142446
Jul 1 – Aug 5, 2025 · Monterey Bay

Monterey Bay · Jul – Aug 2025

89 m
Deepest dive
3:17
Longest dive
52
Dives
Sightings
4
Days between first and last sighting
35
Deepest dive on record
89 m · this residency

Dive stats modelled within real depth limits — not measured

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SightingSeafloorSea tempDeepest dive (modelled)
Jul 1, 20251,121 m—49 m
Aug 3, 202525 m—20 m
Aug 5, 2025101 m—81 m
Aug 5, 2025178 m—89 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 1, 2025 — seafloor 1,121 m (measured), deepest dive 49 m (modelled)Jul 1Aug 3, 2025 — seafloor 25 m (measured), deepest dive 20 m (modelled)Aug 3Aug 5, 2025 — seafloor 101 m (measured), deepest dive 81 m (modelled)Aug 5Aug 5, 2025 — seafloor 178 m (measured), deepest dive 89 m (modelled)Aug 5

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

Dives

89 m
Deepest dive
3:17
Longest dive
52
Dives
25 m
Avg dive depth
4
Sightings
35
Days first → last

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Dive profile

modelled
05010089 mstartdive sequence (illustrative)

Depth shaped by the seafloor limit here (178 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 5, 2025

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

Across the residency · 4 sightings

measured
Seafloor depth
25 m – 1,121 m
Sea-surface temperature
—
Distance from shore
3.0 km – 10.0 km

Sources: GEBCO seafloor grid · PacIOOS coastline distance

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Source records

This activity is assembled from 4 catalogued encounters on Happywhale.

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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