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Monterey Bay

CRC-11824 – Residency

21st sighting in Monterey Bay
Fluke of CRC-11824
CRC-11824 Confirmed in the catalog @1431
Sep 10 – Oct 4, 2026 · Monterey Bay

September, deep green water

Canyon water thick with feed, caught here twice this September—still breathing this route.

221 m
Deepest dive
6:57
Longest dive
34
Dives
Sightings
4
Days between first and last sighting
24
Deepest dive on record
221 m · this residency

Dive stats modelled within real depth limits — not measured

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SightingSeafloorSea tempDeepest dive (modelled)
Sep 10, 2026-8 m18.0°C—
Sep 26, 2026363 m16.4°C129 m
Sep 27, 2026409 m16.4°C99 m
Oct 4, 2026968 m18.9°C221 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 10, 2026 — seafloor -8 m (measured), deepest dive — (modelled)Sep 10Sep 26, 2026 — seafloor 363 m (measured), deepest dive 129 m (modelled)Sep 26Sep 27, 2026 — seafloor 409 m (measured), deepest dive 99 m (modelled)Sep 27Oct 4, 2026 — seafloor 968 m (measured), deepest dive 221 m (modelled)Oct 4

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

Dives

221 m
Deepest dive
6:57
Longest dive
34
Dives
45 m
Avg dive depth
4
Sightings
24
Days first → last

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Dive profile

modelled
0125250221 mstartdive sequence (illustrative)

Depth shaped by the seafloor limit here (968 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 4, 2026

measured
Seafloor depth
968 m
Sea-surface temperature
18.9°C
Distance from shore
34.0 km

Across the residency · 4 sightings

measured
Seafloor depth
-8 m – 968 m
Sea-surface temperature
16.4°C – 18.9°C
Distance from shore
14.0 km – 34.0 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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