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Monterey Bay

CRC-16359 – Residency

76th sighting in Monterey Bay
Fluke of CRC-16359
CRC-16359 Confirmed in the catalog @22304
Apr 4 – Aug 5, 2026 · Monterey Bay

Bay Full of Krill

Spring melted into summer and the shelf edge fed me the whole way.

74 m
Deepest dive
2:55
Longest dive
46
Dives
Sightings
4
Days between first and last sighting
122

Dive stats modelled within real depth limits — not measured

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SightingSeafloorSea tempDeepest dive (modelled)
Apr 4, 2026586 m16.4°C53 m
Jun 25, 202688 m16.3°C51 m
Aug 4, 202682 m17.3°C74 m
Aug 5, 202666 m17.1°C45 m

Seafloor and sea temperature measured · ✳ dives modelled

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Deepest dive against the seafloor, per sighting

Seafloor · measured Deepest dive · modelled
Apr 4, 2026 — seafloor 586 m (measured), deepest dive 53 m (modelled)Apr 4Jun 25, 2026 — seafloor 88 m (measured), deepest dive 51 m (modelled)Jun 25Aug 4, 2026 — seafloor 82 m (measured), deepest dive 74 m (modelled)Aug 4Aug 5, 2026 — seafloor 66 m (measured), deepest dive 45 m (modelled)Aug 5

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

Dives

74 m
Deepest dive
2:55
Longest dive
46
Dives
25 m
Avg dive depth
4
Sightings
122
Days first → last

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Dive profile

modelled
05010074 mstartdive sequence (illustrative)

Depth shaped by the seafloor limit here (82 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 · Aug 4, 2026

measured
Seafloor depth
82 m
Sea-surface temperature
17.3°C
Distance from shore
9.0 km

Across the residency · 4 sightings

measured
Seafloor depth
66 m – 586 m
Sea-surface temperature
16.3°C – 17.3°C
Distance from shore
9.0 km – 15.0 km

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

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Source records

This activity is assembled from 4 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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