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Fluke of Prime Suspect Confirmed in the catalog

Prime Suspect @1437

Prime Suspect is believed to be the whale that breached on Tom Mustill and Charlotte Kinloch and is featured in the BBC documentary Humpback Whales: A Detective Story. Prime Suspect is known as the 2008 calf of CRC-11645 from research conducted by Cascadia Research Collective and collaborators. Also formerly HW-MN0500504. Known as male from a biopsy sample collected by PRIMMA 01/09/2023 and analyzed at Dr. Omar Chassin’s lab (UMSNH).

Monterey Bay · North Pacific

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61 Following 30 Followers
36
Sightings
14
Years
0
Crossings
Last 12 months 1 sighting
  1. N 2025-11: 0 sightings
  2. D 2025-12: 0 sightings
  3. J 2026-01: 0 sightings
  4. F 2026-02: 0 sightings
  5. M 2026-03: 1 sighting
  6. A 2026-04: 0 sightings
  7. M 2026-05: 0 sightings
  8. J 2026-06: 0 sightings
  9. J 2026-07: 0 sightings
  10. A 2026-08: 0 sightings
  11. S 2026-09: 0 sightings
  12. O 2026-10: 0 sightings

Activities

11 in Risa
Activity map — real sighting points on an OpenStreetMap basemap © OpenStreetMap contributors
 Gulf of California · Mar 2026 Mar 23, 2026 · Gulf of California · 1 sighting Deepest dive155 m Longest dive7:46
Activity map — real sighting points on an OpenStreetMap basemap © OpenStreetMap contributors
 Monterey Bay · Sep 2023 Sep 25, 2023 · Monterey Bay · 1 sighting Deepest dive48 m Longest dive2:19
Activity map — real sighting points on an OpenStreetMap basemap © OpenStreetMap contributors
 Gulf of California · Nov 2022 Nov 23, 2022 · Gulf of California · 1 sighting Deepest dive164 m Longest dive6:46
Activity map — real sighting points on an OpenStreetMap basemap © OpenStreetMap contributors
 Monterey Bay · Jul – Oct 2020 Jul 19 – Oct 2, 2020 · Monterey Bay · 2 sightings Deepest dive135 m Longest dive5:29
Activity map — real sighting points on an OpenStreetMap basemap © OpenStreetMap contributors
 Banderas Bay · Jan 2020 Jan 3, 2020 · Banderas Bay · 1 sighting Deepest dive51 m Longest dive2:03
Activity map — real sighting points on an OpenStreetMap basemap © OpenStreetMap contributors
 Monterey Bay · Aug 2019 Aug 4 – 5, 2019 · Monterey Bay · 2 sightings Deepest dive48 m Longest dive2:42
Activity map — real sighting points on an OpenStreetMap basemap © OpenStreetMap contributors
 North Pacific · Feb 2019 Feb 22, 2019 · North Pacific · 1 sighting Deepest dive36 m Longest dive1:22
Activity map — real sighting points on an OpenStreetMap basemap © OpenStreetMap contributors
 Monterey Bay · Aug 2017 Aug 12 – 29, 2017 · Monterey Bay · 5 sightings Deepest dive142 m Longest dive4:53
Activity map — real sighting points on an OpenStreetMap basemap © OpenStreetMap contributors
 Monterey Bay · Sep 2015 Sep 12, 2015 · Monterey Bay · 1 sighting Deepest dive63 m Longest dive2:47
Activity map — real sighting points on an OpenStreetMap basemap © OpenStreetMap contributors
 Monterey Bay · Sep 2014 Sep 5, 2014 · Monterey Bay · 1 sighting Deepest dive174 m Longest dive6:46
Activity map — real sighting points on an OpenStreetMap basemap © OpenStreetMap contributors
 Monterey Bay · Nov 2013 Nov 5, 2013 · Monterey Bay · 1 sighting Deepest dive56 m Longest dive2:07

✳ Dive stats modelled, not measured

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