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Monterey Bay

CRC-23503 – Residency

9th sighting in Monterey Bay
Fluke of CRC-23503
CRC-23503 Confirmed in the catalog @142555
Sep 28 – Oct 16, 2026 · Monterey Bay

Shallow Water, Good Company

Found my patch again, same two shadows drifting beside me.

153 m
Deepest dive
5:31
Longest dive
118
Dives
Sightings
9
Days between first and last sighting
18
Deepest dive on record
153 m · this residency

Dive stats modelled within real depth limits — not measured

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SightingSeafloorSea tempDeepest dive (modelled)
Sep 28, 202697 m—73 m
Sep 30, 2026567 m—153 m
Oct 2, 202653 m—48 m
Oct 3, 2026155 m—59 m
Oct 7, 2026148 m—95 m
Oct 12, 2026183 m—51 m
Oct 13, 202667 m—48 m
Oct 14, 2026229 m—124 m
Oct 16, 2026567 m—53 m

Seafloor and sea temperature measured · ✳ dives modelled

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Deepest dive against the seafloor, per sighting

Seafloor · measured Deepest dive · modelled
Sep 28, 2026 — seafloor 97 m (measured), deepest dive 73 m (modelled)Sep 28Sep 30, 2026 — seafloor 567 m (measured), deepest dive 153 m (modelled)Sep 30Oct 2, 2026 — seafloor 53 m (measured), deepest dive 48 m (modelled)Oct 2Oct 3, 2026 — seafloor 155 m (measured), deepest dive 59 m (modelled)Oct 3Oct 7, 2026 — seafloor 148 m (measured), deepest dive 95 m (modelled)Oct 7Oct 12, 2026 — seafloor 183 m (measured), deepest dive 51 m (modelled)Oct 12Oct 13, 2026 — seafloor 67 m (measured), deepest dive 48 m (modelled)Oct 13Oct 14, 2026 — seafloor 229 m (measured), deepest dive 124 m (modelled)Oct 14Oct 16, 2026 — seafloor 567 m (measured), deepest dive 53 m (modelled)Oct 16

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

Dives

153 m
Deepest dive
5:31
Longest dive
118
Dives
28 m
Avg dive depth
9
Sightings
18
Days first → last

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Dive profile

modelled
0100200153 mstartdive sequence (illustrative)

Depth shaped by the seafloor limit here (567 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 · Sep 30, 2026

measured
Seafloor depth
567 m
Sea-surface temperature
—
Distance from shore
16.0 km

Across the residency · 9 sightings

measured
Seafloor depth
53 m – 567 m
Sea-surface temperature
—
Distance from shore
2.0 km – 16.0 km

Sources: GEBCO seafloor grid · PacIOOS coastline distance

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Source records

This activity is assembled from 9 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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