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Monterey Bay

Batman – Residency

63rd sighting in Monterey Bay
Fluke of Batman
Batman Confirmed in the catalog @146
Jul 22 – Oct 27, 2025 · Monterey Bay

Summer in the Bay

Three months of perfect feeding, the anchovies thick as silver clouds.

98 m
Deepest dive
4:16
Longest dive
40
Dives
Sightings
5
Days between first and last sighting
97

Dive stats modelled within real depth limits — not measured

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SightingSeafloorSea tempDeepest dive (modelled)
Jul 22, 202527 m15.9°C21 m
Sep 20, 202528 m17.3°C16 m
Sep 30, 202582 m17.0°C69 m
Oct 26, 202588 m18.1°C32 m
Oct 27, 2025108 m18.4°C98 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 22, 2025 — seafloor 27 m (measured), deepest dive 21 m (modelled)Jul 22Sep 20, 2025 — seafloor 28 m (measured), deepest dive 16 m (modelled)Sep 20Sep 30, 2025 — seafloor 82 m (measured), deepest dive 69 m (modelled)Sep 30Oct 26, 2025 — seafloor 88 m (measured), deepest dive 32 m (modelled)Oct 26Oct 27, 2025 — seafloor 108 m (measured), deepest dive 98 m (modelled)Oct 27

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

Dives

98 m
Deepest dive
4:16
Longest dive
40
Dives
19 m
Avg dive depth
5
Sightings
97
Days first → last

Dive metrics are modelled within real depth limits — not measured

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Dive profile

modelled
05010098 mstartdive sequence (illustrative)

Depth shaped by the seafloor limit here (108 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 27, 2025

measured
Seafloor depth
108 m
Sea-surface temperature
18.4°C
Distance from shore
17.0 km

Across the residency · 5 sightings

measured
Seafloor depth
27 m – 108 m
Sea-surface temperature
15.9°C – 18.4°C
Distance from shore
1.0 km – 17.0 km

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

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Source records

This activity is assembled from 5 catalogued encounters on Happywhale.

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