Slice – Residency
86th sighting in Monterey Bay
Slice @23
Aug 31 – Oct 8, 2025 · Monterey Bay
September Sanctuary
The bay welcomes me back again, my scarred fin catching sunlight through familiar waters.
112 m
Deepest dive
3:40
Longest dive
47
Dives
- Sightings
- 6
- Days between first and last sighting
- 38
Dive stats modelled within real depth limits — not measured
Get actual dive data with Risa Deep →| Sighting | Seafloor | Sea temp | Deepest dive (modelled) |
|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 31, 2025 | 567 m | 16.3°C | 11 m |
| Sep 27, 2025 | 461 m | 17.3°C | 99 m |
| Sep 28, 2025 | 80 m | 17.1°C | 67 m |
| Sep 29, 2025 | 567 m | 17.3°C | 112 m |
| Oct 2, 2025 | 79 m | 17.4°C | 33 m |
| Oct 8, 2025 | 96 m | 17.1°C | 29 m |
Seafloor and sea temperature measured · ✳ dives modelled
Deepest dive against the seafloor, per sighting
Seafloor · measured Deepest dive · modelledDepth runs down from the surface. The modelled dive never passes the measured seafloor at that sighting.
Dives
112 m
Deepest dive
3:40
Longest dive
47
Dives
25 m
Avg dive depth
6
Sightings
38
Days first → last
Dive metrics are modelled within real depth limits — not measured
Get actual dive data with Risa Deep →Dive profile
modelledDepth shaped by the seafloor limit here (567 m) and the published dive-behaviour distribution. Modelled, not measured.
Deep Effort Score
DeepPlace
Where this happened · Sep 29, 2025
measured- Seafloor depth
- 567 m
- Sea-surface temperature
- 17.3°C
- Distance from shore
- 16.0 km
Across the residency · 6 sightings
measured- Seafloor depth
- 79 m – 567 m
- Sea-surface temperature
- 16.3°C – 17.4°C
- Distance from shore
- 6.0 km – 16.0 km
Sources: GEBCO seafloor grid · NASA JPL MUR sea temperature · PacIOOS coastline distance
Source records
This activity is assembled from 6 catalogued encounters on Happywhale.