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Monterey Bay

Angel Wing – Residency

271st sighting in Monterey Bay
Fluke of Angel Wing
Angel Wing Confirmed in the catalog @18
May 29 – Oct 16, 2026 · Monterey Bay

Monterey, All Summer Long

Bay's mine from late spring clean through to fall's edge—love that.

189 m
Deepest dive
6:50
Longest dive
159
Dives
Sightings
17
Days between first and last sighting
140

Dive stats modelled within real depth limits — not measured

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SightingSeafloorSea tempDeepest dive (modelled)
May 29, 2026399 m13.7°C83 m
Jun 19, 202647 m16.9°C39 m
Jun 30, 2026567 m15.8°C53 m
Jul 5, 2026141 m16.2°C68 m
Aug 24, 202698 m15.8°C35 m
Aug 29, 202668 m15.8°C53 m
Sep 14, 2026168 m16.9°C61 m
Sep 15, 2026115 m16.6°C81 m
Oct 2, 2026567 m17.8°C63 m
Oct 5, 2026287 m17.8°C32 m
Oct 8, 2026251 m18.9°C35 m
Oct 8, 2026236 m19.5°C81 m
Oct 9, 2026567 m17.6°C31 m
Oct 12, 2026143 m16.8°C97 m
Oct 13, 202667 m17.0°C48 m
Oct 14, 2026211 m17.5°C189 m
Oct 16, 2026567 m18.8°C62 m

Seafloor and sea temperature measured · ✳ dives modelled

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Deepest dive against the seafloor, per sighting

Seafloor · measured Deepest dive · modelled
May 29, 2026 — seafloor 399 m (measured), deepest dive 83 m (modelled)May 29Jun 19, 2026 — seafloor 47 m (measured), deepest dive 39 m (modelled)Jun 30, 2026 — seafloor 567 m (measured), deepest dive 53 m (modelled)Jul 5, 2026 — seafloor 141 m (measured), deepest dive 68 m (modelled)Jul 5Aug 24, 2026 — seafloor 98 m (measured), deepest dive 35 m (modelled)Aug 29, 2026 — seafloor 68 m (measured), deepest dive 53 m (modelled)Sep 14, 2026 — seafloor 168 m (measured), deepest dive 61 m (modelled)Sep 14Sep 15, 2026 — seafloor 115 m (measured), deepest dive 81 m (modelled)Oct 2, 2026 — seafloor 567 m (measured), deepest dive 63 m (modelled)Oct 5, 2026 — seafloor 287 m (measured), deepest dive 32 m (modelled)Oct 5Oct 8, 2026 — seafloor 251 m (measured), deepest dive 35 m (modelled)Oct 8, 2026 — seafloor 236 m (measured), deepest dive 81 m (modelled)Oct 9, 2026 — seafloor 567 m (measured), deepest dive 31 m (modelled)Oct 9Oct 12, 2026 — seafloor 143 m (measured), deepest dive 97 m (modelled)Oct 13, 2026 — seafloor 67 m (measured), deepest dive 48 m (modelled)Oct 14, 2026 — seafloor 211 m (measured), deepest dive 189 m (modelled)Oct 14Oct 16, 2026 — seafloor 567 m (measured), deepest dive 62 m (modelled)

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

Dives

189 m
Deepest dive
6:50
Longest dive
159
Dives
26 m
Avg dive depth
17
Sightings
140
Days first → last

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Dive profile

modelled
0100200189 mstartdive sequence (illustrative)

Depth shaped by the seafloor limit here (211 m) and the published dive-behaviour distribution. Modelled, not measured.

Deep Effort Score

Deep

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Place

Where this happened · Oct 14, 2026

measured
Seafloor depth
211 m
Sea-surface temperature
17.5°C
Distance from shore
3.0 km

Across the residency · 17 sightings

measured
Seafloor depth
47 m – 567 m
Sea-surface temperature
13.7°C – 19.5°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 17 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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