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Monterey Bay

CRC-12439 – Residency

29th sighting in Monterey Bay
Fluke of CRC-12439
CRC-12439 Confirmed in the catalog @15455
Jun 23 – Jul 1, 2026 · Monterey Bay

Canyon Water, Right on Time

Early summer bait ball, my crowd, my bay again already thick with krill.

24 m
Deepest dive
1:10
Longest dive
14
Dives
Sightings
2
Days between first and last sighting
8

Dive stats modelled within real depth limits — not measured

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SightingSeafloorSea tempDeepest dive (modelled)
Jun 23, 2026567 m16.7°C18 m
Jul 1, 202627 m15.6°C24 m

Seafloor and sea temperature measured · ✳ dives modelled

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Deepest dive against the seafloor, per sighting

Seafloor · measured Deepest dive · modelled
Jun 23, 2026 — seafloor 567 m (measured), deepest dive 18 m (modelled)Jun 23Jul 1, 2026 — seafloor 27 m (measured), deepest dive 24 m (modelled)Jul 1

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

Dives

24 m
Deepest dive
1:10
Longest dive
14
Dives
11 m
Avg dive depth
2
Sightings
8
Days first → last

Dive metrics are modelled within real depth limits — not measured

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Dive profile

modelled
0255024 mstartdive sequence (illustrative)

Depth shaped by the seafloor limit here (27 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 · Jul 1, 2026

measured
Seafloor depth
27 m
Sea-surface temperature
15.6°C
Distance from shore
6.0 km

Across the residency · 2 sightings

measured
Seafloor depth
27 m – 567 m
Sea-surface temperature
15.6°C – 16.7°C
Distance from shore
6.0 km – 16.0 km

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

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Source records

This activity is assembled from 2 catalogued encounters on Happywhale.

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