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Monterey Bay

CRC-17669 – Residency

5th sighting in Monterey Bay
Fluke of CRC-17669
CRC-17669 Confirmed in the catalog @23988
Jul 23 – Aug 5, 2026 · Monterey Bay

Shelf Edge, High Summer

Bait's thick, boats are busy, this water still teaches me something.

118 m
Deepest dive
5:11
Longest dive
19
Dives
Sightings
2
Days between first and last sighting
13

Dive stats modelled within real depth limits — not measured

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SightingSeafloorSea tempDeepest dive (modelled)
Jul 23, 2026148 m16.8°C118 m
Aug 5, 202664 m17.1°C29 m

Seafloor and sea temperature measured · ✳ dives modelled

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Deepest dive against the seafloor, per sighting

Seafloor · measured Deepest dive · modelled
Jul 23, 2026 — seafloor 148 m (measured), deepest dive 118 m (modelled)Jul 23Aug 5, 2026 — seafloor 64 m (measured), deepest dive 29 m (modelled)Aug 5

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

Dives

118 m
Deepest dive
5:11
Longest dive
19
Dives
25 m
Avg dive depth
2
Sightings
13
Days first → last

Dive metrics are modelled within real depth limits — not measured

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Dive profile

modelled
075150118 mstartdive sequence (illustrative)

Depth shaped by the seafloor limit here (148 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 · Jul 23, 2026

measured
Seafloor depth
148 m
Sea-surface temperature
16.8°C
Distance from shore
3.0 km

Across the residency · 2 sightings

measured
Seafloor depth
64 m – 148 m
Sea-surface temperature
16.8°C – 17.1°C
Distance from shore
3.0 km – 10.0 km

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

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Source records

This activity is assembled from 2 catalogued encounters on Happywhale.

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