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Monterey Bay

2025-2026 calf of CRC-17591 – Residency

8th sighting in Monterey Bay
Fluke of 2025-2026 calf of CRC-17591
2025-2026 calf of CRC-17591 Confirmed in the catalog @161823
Jul 31 – Aug 27, 2026 · Monterey Bay

Anchovy Season, Baby

The deep blue kept coming up full and I stayed close to Mom the whole time.

165 m
Deepest dive
5:39
Longest dive
110
Dives
Sightings
9
Days between first and last sighting
27
Deepest dive on record
165 m · this residency

Dive stats modelled within real depth limits — not measured

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SightingSeafloorSea tempDeepest dive (modelled)
Jul 31, 2026254 m16.8°C165 m
Aug 2, 2026158 m16.8°C67 m
Aug 3, 2026175 m17.5°C114 m
Aug 5, 202638 m17.2°C24 m
Aug 6, 202689 m17.2°C78 m
Aug 8, 202688 m17.3°C68 m
Aug 9, 2026567 m17.0°C142 m
Aug 17, 202625 m16.1°C22 m
Aug 27, 2026145 m16.8°C113 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 31, 2026 — seafloor 254 m (measured), deepest dive 165 m (modelled)Jul 31Aug 2, 2026 — seafloor 158 m (measured), deepest dive 67 m (modelled)Aug 2Aug 3, 2026 — seafloor 175 m (measured), deepest dive 114 m (modelled)Aug 3Aug 5, 2026 — seafloor 38 m (measured), deepest dive 24 m (modelled)Aug 5Aug 6, 2026 — seafloor 89 m (measured), deepest dive 78 m (modelled)Aug 6Aug 8, 2026 — seafloor 88 m (measured), deepest dive 68 m (modelled)Aug 8Aug 9, 2026 — seafloor 567 m (measured), deepest dive 142 m (modelled)Aug 9Aug 17, 2026 — seafloor 25 m (measured), deepest dive 22 m (modelled)Aug 17Aug 27, 2026 — seafloor 145 m (measured), deepest dive 113 m (modelled)Aug 27

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

Dives

165 m
Deepest dive
5:39
Longest dive
110
Dives
30 m
Avg dive depth
9
Sightings
27
Days first → last

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Dive profile

modelled
0100200165 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 31, 2026

measured
Seafloor depth
254 m
Sea-surface temperature
16.8°C
Distance from shore
4.0 km

Across the residency · 9 sightings

measured
Seafloor depth
25 m – 567 m
Sea-surface temperature
16.1°C – 17.5°C
Distance from shore
2.0 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 9 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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