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Monterey Bay

2024-2025 calf of Chin Up – Residency

9th sighting in Monterey Bay
Fluke of 2024-2025 calf of Chin Up
2024-2025 calf of Chin Up Confirmed in the catalog @143888
Sep 21 – Oct 13, 2026 · Monterey Bay

Second Autumn, Full Speed

Cold water, big lungs, this bay still teaches me everything.

187 m
Deepest dive
6:00
Longest dive
85
Dives
Sightings
8
Days between first and last sighting
22
Deepest dive on record
187 m · this residency

Dive stats modelled within real depth limits — not measured

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SightingSeafloorSea tempDeepest dive (modelled)
Sep 21, 2026188 m—65 m
Sep 22, 2026163 m—80 m
Sep 23, 2026324 m—31 m
Sep 27, 202638 m—29 m
Sep 28, 202689 m—50 m
Sep 29, 2026164 m—82 m
Sep 30, 2026211 m—48 m
Oct 13, 2026254 m—187 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 21, 2026 — seafloor 188 m (measured), deepest dive 65 m (modelled)Sep 21Sep 22, 2026 — seafloor 163 m (measured), deepest dive 80 m (modelled)Sep 22Sep 23, 2026 — seafloor 324 m (measured), deepest dive 31 m (modelled)Sep 23Sep 27, 2026 — seafloor 38 m (measured), deepest dive 29 m (modelled)Sep 27Sep 28, 2026 — seafloor 89 m (measured), deepest dive 50 m (modelled)Sep 28Sep 29, 2026 — seafloor 164 m (measured), deepest dive 82 m (modelled)Sep 29Sep 30, 2026 — seafloor 211 m (measured), deepest dive 48 m (modelled)Sep 30Oct 13, 2026 — seafloor 254 m (measured), deepest dive 187 m (modelled)Oct 13

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

Dives

187 m
Deepest dive
6:00
Longest dive
85
Dives
28 m
Avg dive depth
8
Sightings
22
Days first → last

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Dive profile

modelled
0100200187 mstartdive sequence (illustrative)

Depth shaped by the seafloor limit here (254 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 13, 2026

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

Across the residency · 8 sightings

measured
Seafloor depth
38 m – 324 m
Sea-surface temperature
—
Distance from shore
1.0 km – 6.0 km

Sources: GEBCO seafloor grid · PacIOOS coastline distance

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Source records

This activity is assembled from 8 catalogued encounters on Happywhale.

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