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Monterey Bay

CRC-11738 – Residency

20th sighting in Monterey Bay
Fluke of CRC-11738
CRC-11738 Confirmed in the catalog @230
Jun 25 – Oct 19, 2026 · Monterey Bay

Green Water Season

Midsummer in this shelf, boats still know my tail.

116 m
Deepest dive
4:03
Longest dive
51
Dives
Sightings
3
Days between first and last sighting
116

Dive stats modelled within real depth limits — not measured

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SightingSeafloorSea tempDeepest dive (modelled)
Jun 25, 2026161 m15.9°C116 m
Aug 11, 2026112 m16.7°C58 m
Oct 19, 202677 m19.2°C31 m

Seafloor and sea temperature measured · ✳ dives modelled

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Deepest dive against the seafloor, per sighting

Seafloor · measured Deepest dive · modelled
Jun 25, 2026 — seafloor 161 m (measured), deepest dive 116 m (modelled)Jun 25Aug 11, 2026 — seafloor 112 m (measured), deepest dive 58 m (modelled)Aug 11Oct 19, 2026 — seafloor 77 m (measured), deepest dive 31 m (modelled)Oct 19

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

Dives

116 m
Deepest dive
4:03
Longest dive
51
Dives
26 m
Avg dive depth
3
Sightings
116
Days first → last

Dive metrics are modelled within real depth limits — not measured

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Dive profile

modelled
075150116 mstartdive sequence (illustrative)

Depth shaped by the seafloor limit here (161 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 · Jun 25, 2026

measured
Seafloor depth
161 m
Sea-surface temperature
15.9°C
Distance from shore
6.0 km

Across the residency · 3 sightings

measured
Seafloor depth
77 m – 161 m
Sea-surface temperature
15.9°C – 19.2°C
Distance from shore
3.0 km – 6.0 km

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

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Source records

This activity is assembled from 3 catalogued encounters on Happywhale.

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