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Monterey Bay

CRC-12460 – Residency

33rd sighting in Monterey Bay
Fluke of CRC-12460
CRC-12460 Confirmed in the catalog @2437
May 18 – Jul 8, 2025 · Monterey Bay

Monterey Bay · May – Jul 2025

75 m
Deepest dive
2:23
Longest dive
90
Dives
Sightings
7
Days between first and last sighting
51

Dive stats modelled within real depth limits — not measured

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SightingSeafloorSea tempDeepest dive (modelled)
May 18, 2025567 m11.6°C75 m
May 24, 202563 m12.7°C51 m
Jun 15, 202561 m14.0°C48 m
Jul 4, 202578 m13.4°C66 m
Jul 6, 202570 m13.8°C44 m
Jul 8, 202572 m13.6°C49 m
Jul 8, 202548 m13.6°C15 m

Seafloor and sea temperature measured · ✳ dives modelled

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Deepest dive against the seafloor, per sighting

Seafloor · measured Deepest dive · modelled
May 18, 2025 — seafloor 567 m (measured), deepest dive 75 m (modelled)May 18May 24, 2025 — seafloor 63 m (measured), deepest dive 51 m (modelled)May 24Jun 15, 2025 — seafloor 61 m (measured), deepest dive 48 m (modelled)Jun 15Jul 4, 2025 — seafloor 78 m (measured), deepest dive 66 m (modelled)Jul 4Jul 6, 2025 — seafloor 70 m (measured), deepest dive 44 m (modelled)Jul 6Jul 8, 2025 — seafloor 72 m (measured), deepest dive 49 m (modelled)Jul 8Jul 8, 2025 — seafloor 48 m (measured), deepest dive 15 m (modelled)Jul 8

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

Dives

75 m
Deepest dive
2:23
Longest dive
90
Dives
21 m
Avg dive depth
7
Sightings
51
Days first → last

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Dive profile

modelled
05010075 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 · May 18, 2025

measured
Seafloor depth
567 m
Sea-surface temperature
11.6°C
Distance from shore
16.0 km

Across the residency · 7 sightings

measured
Seafloor depth
48 m – 567 m
Sea-surface temperature
11.6°C – 14.0°C
Distance from shore
1.0 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 7 catalogued encounters on Happywhale.

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