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Monterey Bay

161380 – Residency

10th sighting in Monterey Bay
Fluke of 161380
161380 Confirmed in the catalog @161380
Jul 5 – 21, 2026 · Monterey Bay

Green Water, Good Company

Found a bay thick with food and thicker with neighbors — haven't left yet.

217 m
Deepest dive
6:59
Longest dive
118
Dives
Sightings
10
Days between first and last sighting
16
Deepest dive on record
217 m · this residency

Dive stats modelled within real depth limits — not measured

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SightingSeafloorSea tempDeepest dive (modelled)
Jul 5, 2026254 m16.4°C217 m
Jul 6, 2026131 m16.4°C35 m
Jul 8, 202662 m16.3°C49 m
Jul 9, 202668 m16.1°C24 m
Jul 13, 202667 m16.8°C53 m
Jul 14, 2026104 m16.7°C44 m
Jul 15, 202673 m16.6°C51 m
Jul 18, 202667 m15.4°C18 m
Jul 20, 202659 m16.1°C52 m
Jul 21, 202671 m17.3°C54 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 5, 2026 — seafloor 254 m (measured), deepest dive 217 m (modelled)Jul 5Jul 6, 2026 — seafloor 131 m (measured), deepest dive 35 m (modelled)Jul 6Jul 8, 2026 — seafloor 62 m (measured), deepest dive 49 m (modelled)Jul 8Jul 9, 2026 — seafloor 68 m (measured), deepest dive 24 m (modelled)Jul 9Jul 13, 2026 — seafloor 67 m (measured), deepest dive 53 m (modelled)Jul 13Jul 14, 2026 — seafloor 104 m (measured), deepest dive 44 m (modelled)Jul 14Jul 15, 2026 — seafloor 73 m (measured), deepest dive 51 m (modelled)Jul 15Jul 18, 2026 — seafloor 67 m (measured), deepest dive 18 m (modelled)Jul 18Jul 20, 2026 — seafloor 59 m (measured), deepest dive 52 m (modelled)Jul 20Jul 21, 2026 — seafloor 71 m (measured), deepest dive 54 m (modelled)Jul 21

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

Dives

217 m
Deepest dive
6:59
Longest dive
118
Dives
22 m
Avg dive depth
10
Sightings
16
Days first → last

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Dive profile

modelled
0125250217 mstartdive sequence (illustrative)

Depth shaped by the seafloor limit here (254 m) and the published dive-behaviour distribution. Modelled, not measured.

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Place

Where this happened · Jul 5, 2026

measured
Seafloor depth
254 m
Sea-surface temperature
16.4°C
Distance from shore
4.0 km

Across the residency · 10 sightings

measured
Seafloor depth
59 m – 254 m
Sea-surface temperature
15.4°C – 17.3°C
Distance from shore
2.0 km – 4.0 km

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

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Source records

This activity is assembled from 10 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.

The photographs and fluke identifications behind every sighting are the work of the contributing observers — the citizen scientists, naturalists and operators who logged them, each named in the underlying GBIF occurrence record. Every activity links out to its source encounters on Happywhale. Basemaps © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL).

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