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Monterey Bay

HW-MN0504014 – Residency

24th sighting in Monterey Bay
Fluke of HW-MN0504014
HW-MN0504014 Confirmed in the catalog @149292
May 19 – Oct 3, 2026 · Monterey Bay

Same Green Water, Again

Summer in the bay, surfacing where they keep finding me.

220 m
Deepest dive
11:19
Longest dive
294
Dives
Sightings
25
Days between first and last sighting
136
Deepest dive on record
220 m · this residency

Dive stats modelled within real depth limits — not measured

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SightingSeafloorSea tempDeepest dive (modelled)
May 19, 2026430 m18.9°C89 m
Jun 24, 202689 m16.5°C51 m
Jul 18, 202667 m15.4°C27 m
Jul 19, 2026254 m15.8°C49 m
Jul 20, 2026136 m16.1°C113 m
Jul 21, 202657 m17.3°C40 m
Jul 23, 2026189 m17.0°C103 m
Aug 1, 2026156 m16.7°C65 m
Aug 2, 2026128 m16.8°C59 m
Aug 3, 2026158 m17.5°C61 m
Aug 4, 2026191 m17.3°C47 m
Aug 6, 202672 m17.2°C52 m
Aug 10, 2026102 m17.1°C88 m
Aug 11, 2026140 m16.9°C12 m
Aug 12, 2026128 m16.9°C32 m
Aug 13, 202684 m16.8°C40 m
Aug 17, 2026191 m16.7°C140 m
Sep 3, 2026235 m15.3°C27 m

Seafloor and sea temperature measured · ✳ dives modelled ·

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Deepest dive against the seafloor, per sighting

Seafloor · measured Deepest dive · modelled
May 19, 2026 — seafloor 430 m (measured), deepest dive 89 m (modelled)May 19Jun 24, 2026 — seafloor 89 m (measured), deepest dive 51 m (modelled)Jul 18, 2026 — seafloor 67 m (measured), deepest dive 27 m (modelled)Jul 19, 2026 — seafloor 254 m (measured), deepest dive 49 m (modelled)Jul 20, 2026 — seafloor 136 m (measured), deepest dive 113 m (modelled)Jul 21, 2026 — seafloor 57 m (measured), deepest dive 40 m (modelled)Jul 21Jul 23, 2026 — seafloor 189 m (measured), deepest dive 103 m (modelled)Aug 1, 2026 — seafloor 156 m (measured), deepest dive 65 m (modelled)Aug 2, 2026 — seafloor 128 m (measured), deepest dive 59 m (modelled)Aug 3, 2026 — seafloor 158 m (measured), deepest dive 61 m (modelled)Aug 4, 2026 — seafloor 191 m (measured), deepest dive 47 m (modelled)Aug 4Aug 6, 2026 — seafloor 72 m (measured), deepest dive 52 m (modelled)Aug 10, 2026 — seafloor 102 m (measured), deepest dive 88 m (modelled)Aug 11, 2026 — seafloor 140 m (measured), deepest dive 12 m (modelled)Aug 12, 2026 — seafloor 128 m (measured), deepest dive 32 m (modelled)Aug 13, 2026 — seafloor 84 m (measured), deepest dive 40 m (modelled)Aug 13Aug 17, 2026 — seafloor 191 m (measured), deepest dive 140 m (modelled)Sep 3, 2026 — seafloor 235 m (measured), deepest dive 27 m (modelled)Sep 6, 2026 — seafloor 254 m (measured), deepest dive 220 m (modelled)Sep 10, 2026 — seafloor 207 m (measured), deepest dive 97 m (modelled)Sep 22, 2026 — seafloor 193 m (measured), deepest dive 48 m (modelled)Sep 22Sep 22, 2026 — seafloor 247 m (measured), deepest dive 122 m (modelled)Sep 26, 2026 — seafloor 323 m (measured), deepest dive 64 m (modelled)Sep 27, 2026 — seafloor 222 m (measured), deepest dive 134 m (modelled)Oct 3, 2026 — seafloor 183 m (measured), deepest dive 49 m (modelled)

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

Dives

220 m
Deepest dive
11:19
Longest dive
294
Dives
26 m
Avg dive depth
25
Sightings
136
Days first → last

Dive metrics are modelled within real depth limits — not measured

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Dive profile

modelled
0125250220 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 · Sep 6, 2026

measured
Seafloor depth
254 m
Sea-surface temperature
15.7°C
Distance from shore
4.0 km

Across the residency · 25 sightings

measured
Seafloor depth
57 m – 430 m
Sea-surface temperature
15.3°C – 18.9°C
Distance from shore
2.0 km – 13.0 km

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

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Source records

This activity is assembled from 25 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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