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Monterey Bay

Mori – Residency

13th sighting in Monterey Bay
Fluke of Mori
Mori Confirmed in the catalog @144253
Jul 12 – Sep 15, 2026 · Monterey Bay

Late Summer, Same Canyon Crowd

The cold water rose and everybody came to eat.

116 m
Deepest dive
4:37
Longest dive
114
Dives
Sightings
11
Days between first and last sighting
65
Deepest dive on record
116 m · this residency

Dive stats modelled within real depth limits — not measured

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SightingSeafloorSea tempDeepest dive (modelled)
Jul 12, 20268 m15.2°C7 m
Jul 28, 202665 m16.9°C60 m
Jul 29, 2026254 m16.7°C37 m
Aug 2, 2026148 m16.8°C64 m
Aug 2, 202663 m16.9°C36 m
Aug 4, 2026181 m17.3°C116 m
Aug 8, 202639 m17.3°C30 m
Aug 10, 2026218 m17.1°C65 m
Sep 10, 2026386 m17.7°C68 m
Sep 14, 2026335 m—28 m
Sep 15, 2026139 m—46 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 12, 2026 — seafloor 8 m (measured), deepest dive 7 m (modelled)Jul 12Jul 28, 2026 — seafloor 65 m (measured), deepest dive 60 m (modelled)Jul 28Jul 29, 2026 — seafloor 254 m (measured), deepest dive 37 m (modelled)Jul 29Aug 2, 2026 — seafloor 148 m (measured), deepest dive 64 m (modelled)Aug 2Aug 2, 2026 — seafloor 63 m (measured), deepest dive 36 m (modelled)Aug 2Aug 4, 2026 — seafloor 181 m (measured), deepest dive 116 m (modelled)Aug 4Aug 8, 2026 — seafloor 39 m (measured), deepest dive 30 m (modelled)Aug 8Aug 10, 2026 — seafloor 218 m (measured), deepest dive 65 m (modelled)Aug 10Sep 10, 2026 — seafloor 386 m (measured), deepest dive 68 m (modelled)Sep 10Sep 14, 2026 — seafloor 335 m (measured), deepest dive 28 m (modelled)Sep 14Sep 15, 2026 — seafloor 139 m (measured), deepest dive 46 m (modelled)Sep 15

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

Dives

116 m
Deepest dive
4:37
Longest dive
114
Dives
21 m
Avg dive depth
11
Sightings
65
Days first → last

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Dive profile

modelled
075150116 mstartdive sequence (illustrative)

Depth shaped by the seafloor limit here (181 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 · Aug 4, 2026

measured
Seafloor depth
181 m
Sea-surface temperature
17.3°C
Distance from shore
3.0 km

Across the residency · 11 sightings

measured
Seafloor depth
8 m – 386 m
Sea-surface temperature
15.2°C – 17.7°C
Distance from shore
2.0 km – 8.0 km

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

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Source records

This activity is assembled from 11 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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