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Monterey Bay

2025-2026 calf of Rip Curl – Residency

7th sighting in Monterey Bay
Fluke of 2025-2026 calf of Rip Curl
2025-2026 calf of Rip Curl Confirmed in the catalog @161787
Jul 22 – Sep 28, 2026 · Monterey Bay

Learning This Green Bay

Still finding my breath here, close to Mom, again and again.

115 m
Deepest dive
3:52
Longest dive
85
Dives
Sightings
8
Days between first and last sighting
68
Deepest dive on record
115 m · this residency

Dive stats modelled within real depth limits — not measured

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SightingSeafloorSea tempDeepest dive (modelled)
Jul 22, 2026129 m17.2°C36 m
Jul 31, 2026444 m16.7°C115 m
Aug 30, 202647 m16.7°C37 m
Sep 8, 2026256 m15.9°C46 m
Sep 12, 202647 m17.2°C32 m
Sep 23, 2026324 m—55 m
Sep 25, 2026189 m—65 m
Sep 28, 2026134 m—109 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 22, 2026 — seafloor 129 m (measured), deepest dive 36 m (modelled)Jul 22Jul 31, 2026 — seafloor 444 m (measured), deepest dive 115 m (modelled)Jul 31Aug 30, 2026 — seafloor 47 m (measured), deepest dive 37 m (modelled)Aug 30Sep 8, 2026 — seafloor 256 m (measured), deepest dive 46 m (modelled)Sep 8Sep 12, 2026 — seafloor 47 m (measured), deepest dive 32 m (modelled)Sep 12Sep 23, 2026 — seafloor 324 m (measured), deepest dive 55 m (modelled)Sep 23Sep 25, 2026 — seafloor 189 m (measured), deepest dive 65 m (modelled)Sep 25Sep 28, 2026 — seafloor 134 m (measured), deepest dive 109 m (modelled)Sep 28

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

Dives

115 m
Deepest dive
3:52
Longest dive
85
Dives
28 m
Avg dive depth
8
Sightings
68
Days first → last

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Dive profile

modelled
075150115 mstartdive sequence (illustrative)

Depth shaped by the seafloor limit here (444 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 31, 2026

measured
Seafloor depth
444 m
Sea-surface temperature
16.7°C
Distance from shore
6.0 km

Across the residency · 8 sightings

measured
Seafloor depth
47 m – 444 m
Sea-surface temperature
15.9°C – 17.2°C
Distance from shore
2.0 km – 8.0 km

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

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Source records

This activity is assembled from 8 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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