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Monterey Bay

CRC-23129 – Residency

54th sighting in Monterey Bay
Fluke of CRC-23129
CRC-23129 Confirmed in the catalog @144219
Jul 16 – Oct 16, 2026 · Monterey Bay

Same Shelf, Full Water

Cold water rises, feed's thick, I stay put.

99 m
Deepest dive
3:52
Longest dive
208
Dives
Sightings
19
Days between first and last sighting
92

Dive stats modelled within real depth limits — not measured

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SightingSeafloorSea tempDeepest dive (modelled)
Jul 16, 202671 m16.3°C58 m
Jul 18, 202667 m15.4°C33 m
Jul 19, 2026254 m15.8°C55 m
Jul 20, 202686 m16.1°C58 m
Jul 21, 202665 m17.3°C33 m
Aug 28, 202675 m16.7°C66 m
Aug 29, 2026121 m15.8°C83 m
Aug 30, 2026254 m15.4°C80 m
Sep 2, 202673 m15.3°C33 m
Sep 3, 2026217 m15.3°C66 m
Sep 4, 2026504 m15.6°C81 m
Sep 5, 2026110 m16.0°C28 m
Sep 6, 2026328 m15.5°C90 m
Sep 7, 2026276 m15.9°C22 m
Sep 25, 2026309 m16.6°C99 m
Sep 26, 2026113 m16.7°C16 m
Sep 29, 202663 m16.8°C49 m
Sep 30, 2026113 m16.6°C49 m

Seafloor and sea temperature measured · ✳ dives modelled ·

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Deepest dive against the seafloor, per sighting

Seafloor · measured Deepest dive · modelled
Jul 16, 2026 — seafloor 71 m (measured), deepest dive 58 m (modelled)Jul 16Jul 18, 2026 — seafloor 67 m (measured), deepest dive 33 m (modelled)Jul 19, 2026 — seafloor 254 m (measured), deepest dive 55 m (modelled)Jul 20, 2026 — seafloor 86 m (measured), deepest dive 58 m (modelled)Jul 21, 2026 — seafloor 65 m (measured), deepest dive 33 m (modelled)Jul 21Aug 28, 2026 — seafloor 75 m (measured), deepest dive 66 m (modelled)Aug 29, 2026 — seafloor 121 m (measured), deepest dive 83 m (modelled)Aug 30, 2026 — seafloor 254 m (measured), deepest dive 80 m (modelled)Sep 2, 2026 — seafloor 73 m (measured), deepest dive 33 m (modelled)Sep 2Sep 3, 2026 — seafloor 217 m (measured), deepest dive 66 m (modelled)Sep 4, 2026 — seafloor 504 m (measured), deepest dive 81 m (modelled)Sep 5, 2026 — seafloor 110 m (measured), deepest dive 28 m (modelled)Sep 6, 2026 — seafloor 328 m (measured), deepest dive 90 m (modelled)Sep 6Sep 7, 2026 — seafloor 276 m (measured), deepest dive 22 m (modelled)Sep 25, 2026 — seafloor 309 m (measured), deepest dive 99 m (modelled)Sep 26, 2026 — seafloor 113 m (measured), deepest dive 16 m (modelled)Sep 29, 2026 — seafloor 63 m (measured), deepest dive 49 m (modelled)Sep 29Sep 30, 2026 — seafloor 113 m (measured), deepest dive 49 m (modelled)Oct 16, 2026 — seafloor 567 m (measured), deepest dive 67 m (modelled)

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

Dives

99 m
Deepest dive
3:52
Longest dive
208
Dives
23 m
Avg dive depth
19
Sightings
92
Days first → last

Dive metrics are modelled within real depth limits — not measured

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Dive profile

modelled
05010099 mstartdive sequence (illustrative)

Depth shaped by the seafloor limit here (309 m) and the published dive-behaviour distribution. Modelled, not measured.

Deep Effort Score

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Place

Where this happened · Sep 25, 2026

measured
Seafloor depth
309 m
Sea-surface temperature
16.6°C
Distance from shore
7.0 km

Across the residency · 19 sightings

measured
Seafloor depth
63 m – 567 m
Sea-surface temperature
15.3°C – 18.8°C
Distance from shore
2.0 km – 16.0 km

Sources: GEBCO seafloor grid · NASA JPL MUR sea temperature · PacIOOS coastline distance

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Source records

This activity is assembled from 19 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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