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Monterey Bay

Nanners – Residency

16th sighting in Monterey Bay
Fluke of Nanners
Nanners Confirmed in the catalog @246
May 19 – 22, 2026 · Monterey Bay

May in the Green Water

Shelf's dropping, feed's rising, and I'm right where I belong.

84 m
Deepest dive
2:37
Longest dive
56
Dives
Sightings
4
Days between first and last sighting
3

Dive stats modelled within real depth limits — not measured

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SightingSeafloorSea tempDeepest dive (modelled)
May 19, 2026115 m11.6°C84 m
May 20, 202696 m11.7°C36 m
May 21, 202668 m11.6°C53 m
May 22, 202663 m12.0°C55 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 19, 2026 — seafloor 115 m (measured), deepest dive 84 m (modelled)May 19May 20, 2026 — seafloor 96 m (measured), deepest dive 36 m (modelled)May 20May 21, 2026 — seafloor 68 m (measured), deepest dive 53 m (modelled)May 21May 22, 2026 — seafloor 63 m (measured), deepest dive 55 m (modelled)May 22

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

Dives

84 m
Deepest dive
2:37
Longest dive
56
Dives
23 m
Avg dive depth
4
Sightings
3
Days first → last

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Dive profile

modelled
05010084 mstartdive sequence (illustrative)

Depth shaped by the seafloor limit here (115 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 19, 2026

measured
Seafloor depth
115 m
Sea-surface temperature
11.6°C
Distance from shore
6.0 km

Across the residency · 4 sightings

measured
Seafloor depth
63 m – 115 m
Sea-surface temperature
11.6°C – 12.0°C
Distance from shore
2.0 km – 6.0 km

Sources: GEBCO seafloor grid · NOAA OISST sea temperature · PacIOOS coastline distance

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Source records

This activity is assembled from 4 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.

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