Freckles – Residency
16th sighting in Monterey BayFreckles @144202
Aug 24 – Sep 26, 2026 · Monterey Bay
Monterey, Thick With Feed
Shelf drops, water goes green, and the bay just delivers.
147 m
Deepest dive
5:39
Longest dive
169
Dives
- Sightings
- 16
- Days between first and last sighting
- 33
- Deepest dive on record
- 147 m · this residency
Dive stats modelled within real depth limits — not measured
Get actual dive data with Risa Deep →| Sighting | Seafloor | Sea temp | Deepest dive (modelled) |
|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 24, 2026 | 98 m | 15.8°C | 64 m |
| Aug 27, 2026 | 73 m | 16.9°C | 35 m |
| Aug 29, 2026 | 68 m | 15.8°C | 59 m |
| Aug 31, 2026 | 567 m | 15.5°C | 146 m |
| Sep 1, 2026 | 295 m | 15.2°C | 73 m |
| Sep 2, 2026 | 117 m | 15.3°C | 71 m |
| Sep 2, 2026 | 186 m | 15.4°C | 97 m |
| Sep 3, 2026 | 231 m | 15.3°C | 98 m |
| Sep 5, 2026 | 132 m | 15.9°C | 62 m |
| Sep 7, 2026 | 320 m | 15.7°C | 42 m |
| Sep 9, 2026 | 160 m | 15.8°C | 30 m |
| Sep 10, 2026 | 164 m | 17.7°C | 61 m |
| Sep 11, 2026 | 567 m | — | 119 m |
| Sep 12, 2026 | 133 m | — | 44 m |
| Sep 12, 2026 | 66 m | — | 47 m |
| Sep 26, 2026 | 326 m | — | 147 m |
Seafloor and sea temperature measured · ✳ dives modelled
Deepest dive against the seafloor, per sighting
Seafloor · measured Deepest dive · modelledDepth runs down from the surface. The modelled dive never passes the measured seafloor at that sighting.
Dives
147 m
Deepest dive
5:39
Longest dive
169
Dives
27 m
Avg dive depth
16
Sightings
33
Days first → last
Dive metrics are modelled within real depth limits — not measured
Get actual dive data with Risa Deep →Dive profile
modelledDepth shaped by the seafloor limit here (326 m) and the published dive-behaviour distribution. Modelled, not measured.
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Where this happened · Sep 26, 2026
measured- Seafloor depth
- 326 m
- Sea-surface temperature
- —
- Distance from shore
- 6.0 km
Across the residency · 16 sightings
measured- Seafloor depth
- 66 m – 567 m
- Sea-surface temperature
- 15.2°C – 17.7°C
- Distance from shore
- 2.0 km – 16.0 km
Sources: GEBCO seafloor grid · PacIOOS coastline distance
Source records
This activity is assembled from 16 catalogued encounters on Happywhale.