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Monterey Bay

226 – Residency

57th sighting in Monterey Bay
Fluke of 226
226 Confirmed in the catalog @226
Aug 8 – Oct 11, 2026 · Monterey Bay

The Shelf, Thick with Feed

August found me right where the water turns green and generous.

177 m
Deepest dive
4:52
Longest dive
142
Dives
Sightings
12
Days between first and last sighting
64

Dive stats modelled within real depth limits — not measured

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SightingSeafloorSea tempDeepest dive (modelled)
Aug 8, 202639 m17.3°C34 m
Aug 9, 2026567 m17.0°C177 m
Aug 10, 2026106 m17.1°C85 m
Aug 11, 202680 m16.9°C28 m
Aug 13, 2026117 m16.8°C44 m
Oct 5, 2026146 m17.8°C106 m
Oct 5, 2026288 m17.9°C38 m
Oct 7, 202687 m18.3°C63 m
Oct 8, 2026250 m18.9°C46 m
Oct 8, 2026174 m19.5°C88 m
Oct 10, 2026171 m17.3°C127 m
Oct 11, 2026100 m17.1°C70 m

Seafloor and sea temperature measured · ✳ dives modelled

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Deepest dive against the seafloor, per sighting

Seafloor · measured Deepest dive · modelled
Aug 8, 2026 — seafloor 39 m (measured), deepest dive 34 m (modelled)Aug 8Aug 9, 2026 — seafloor 567 m (measured), deepest dive 177 m (modelled)Aug 9Aug 10, 2026 — seafloor 106 m (measured), deepest dive 85 m (modelled)Aug 10Aug 11, 2026 — seafloor 80 m (measured), deepest dive 28 m (modelled)Aug 11Aug 13, 2026 — seafloor 117 m (measured), deepest dive 44 m (modelled)Aug 13Oct 5, 2026 — seafloor 146 m (measured), deepest dive 106 m (modelled)Oct 5Oct 5, 2026 — seafloor 288 m (measured), deepest dive 38 m (modelled)Oct 5Oct 7, 2026 — seafloor 87 m (measured), deepest dive 63 m (modelled)Oct 7Oct 8, 2026 — seafloor 250 m (measured), deepest dive 46 m (modelled)Oct 8Oct 8, 2026 — seafloor 174 m (measured), deepest dive 88 m (modelled)Oct 8Oct 10, 2026 — seafloor 171 m (measured), deepest dive 127 m (modelled)Oct 10Oct 11, 2026 — seafloor 100 m (measured), deepest dive 70 m (modelled)Oct 11

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

Dives

177 m
Deepest dive
4:52
Longest dive
142
Dives
27 m
Avg dive depth
12
Sightings
64
Days first → last

Dive metrics are modelled within real depth limits — not measured

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Dive profile

modelled
0100200177 mstartdive sequence (illustrative)

Depth shaped by the seafloor limit here (567 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 9, 2026

measured
Seafloor depth
567 m
Sea-surface temperature
17.0°C
Distance from shore
16.0 km

Across the residency · 12 sightings

measured
Seafloor depth
39 m – 567 m
Sea-surface temperature
16.8°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 12 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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