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Monterey Bay

CRC-23749 – Residency

5th sighting in Monterey Bay
Fluke of CRC-23749
CRC-23749 Confirmed in the catalog @153580
Sep 2 – 7, 2026 · Monterey Bay

Same Green Water Again

Kept circling this shelf all September — good company, better feeding.

92 m
Deepest dive
3:57
Longest dive
81
Dives
Sightings
4
Days between first and last sighting
5

Dive stats modelled within real depth limits — not measured

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SightingSeafloorSea tempDeepest dive (modelled)
Sep 2, 202674 m15.3°C67 m
Sep 3, 2026123 m15.3°C73 m
Sep 4, 2026504 m15.6°C92 m
Sep 7, 202688 m15.5°C39 m

Seafloor and sea temperature measured · ✳ dives modelled

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Deepest dive against the seafloor, per sighting

Seafloor · measured Deepest dive · modelled
Sep 2, 2026 — seafloor 74 m (measured), deepest dive 67 m (modelled)Sep 2Sep 3, 2026 — seafloor 123 m (measured), deepest dive 73 m (modelled)Sep 3Sep 4, 2026 — seafloor 504 m (measured), deepest dive 92 m (modelled)Sep 4Sep 7, 2026 — seafloor 88 m (measured), deepest dive 39 m (modelled)Sep 7

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

Dives

92 m
Deepest dive
3:57
Longest dive
81
Dives
23 m
Avg dive depth
4
Sightings
5
Days first → last

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Dive profile

modelled
05010092 mstartdive sequence (illustrative)

Depth shaped by the seafloor limit here (504 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 4, 2026

measured
Seafloor depth
504 m
Sea-surface temperature
15.6°C
Distance from shore
10.0 km

Across the residency · 4 sightings

measured
Seafloor depth
74 m – 504 m
Sea-surface temperature
15.3°C – 15.6°C
Distance from shore
6.0 km – 10.0 km

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

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Source records

This activity is assembled from 4 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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