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Monterey Bay

Percent – Residency

159th sighting in Monterey Bay
Fluke of Percent
Percent Confirmed in the catalog @1497
Feb 28 – Sep 6, 2026 · Monterey Bay

Canyon Feed, All Season

This green water keeps feeding me, and I keep showing up for it.

164 m
Deepest dive
7:10
Longest dive
84
Dives
Sightings
7
Days between first and last sighting
190

Dive stats modelled within real depth limits — not measured

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SightingSeafloorSea tempDeepest dive (modelled)
Feb 28, 20261,904 m14.5°C123 m
Apr 26, 202673 m13.8°C51 m
May 15, 2026108 m11.6°C60 m
Aug 5, 202656 m17.1°C50 m
Aug 24, 202699 m16.0°C43 m
Aug 27, 202675 m16.9°C50 m
Sep 6, 2026199 m15.8°C164 m

Seafloor and sea temperature measured · ✳ dives modelled

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Deepest dive against the seafloor, per sighting

Seafloor · measured Deepest dive · modelled
Feb 28, 2026 — seafloor 1,904 m (measured), deepest dive 123 m (modelled)Feb 28Apr 26, 2026 — seafloor 73 m (measured), deepest dive 51 m (modelled)Apr 26May 15, 2026 — seafloor 108 m (measured), deepest dive 60 m (modelled)May 15Aug 5, 2026 — seafloor 56 m (measured), deepest dive 50 m (modelled)Aug 5Aug 24, 2026 — seafloor 99 m (measured), deepest dive 43 m (modelled)Aug 24Aug 27, 2026 — seafloor 75 m (measured), deepest dive 50 m (modelled)Aug 27Sep 6, 2026 — seafloor 199 m (measured), deepest dive 164 m (modelled)Sep 6

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

Dives

164 m
Deepest dive
7:10
Longest dive
84
Dives
26 m
Avg dive depth
7
Sightings
190
Days first → last

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Dive profile

modelled
0100200164 mstartdive sequence (illustrative)

Depth shaped by the seafloor limit here (199 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
199 m
Sea-surface temperature
15.8°C
Distance from shore
4.0 km

Across the residency · 7 sightings

measured
Seafloor depth
56 m – 1,904 m
Sea-surface temperature
11.6°C – 17.1°C
Distance from shore
4.0 km – 14.0 km

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

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Source records

This activity is assembled from 7 catalogued encounters on Happywhale.

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