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Monterey Bay

CRC-17641 – Residency

42nd sighting in Monterey Bay
Fluke of CRC-17641
CRC-17641 Confirmed in the catalog @24688
Jun 25 – Sep 8, 2026 · Monterey Bay

Same Canyon, Same Summer

Stayed put, fed hard, surfaced right where you'd expect me.

161 m
Deepest dive
7:03
Longest dive
87
Dives
Sightings
8
Days between first and last sighting
75

Dive stats modelled within real depth limits — not measured

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SightingSeafloorSea tempDeepest dive (modelled)
Jun 25, 202688 m16.3°C50 m
Aug 30, 2026183 m15.4°C68 m
Aug 31, 2026567 m15.5°C81 m
Sep 1, 2026254 m15.2°C161 m
Sep 5, 2026251 m15.8°C123 m
Sep 6, 2026328 m15.5°C69 m
Sep 7, 2026254 m15.9°C153 m
Sep 8, 202692 m16.0°C81 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 88 m (measured), deepest dive 50 m (modelled)Jun 25Aug 30, 2026 — seafloor 183 m (measured), deepest dive 68 m (modelled)Aug 30Aug 31, 2026 — seafloor 567 m (measured), deepest dive 81 m (modelled)Aug 31Sep 1, 2026 — seafloor 254 m (measured), deepest dive 161 m (modelled)Sep 1Sep 5, 2026 — seafloor 251 m (measured), deepest dive 123 m (modelled)Sep 5Sep 6, 2026 — seafloor 328 m (measured), deepest dive 69 m (modelled)Sep 6Sep 7, 2026 — seafloor 254 m (measured), deepest dive 153 m (modelled)Sep 7Sep 8, 2026 — seafloor 92 m (measured), deepest dive 81 m (modelled)Sep 8

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

Dives

161 m
Deepest dive
7:03
Longest dive
87
Dives
35 m
Avg dive depth
8
Sightings
75
Days first → last

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Dive profile

modelled
0100200161 mstartdive sequence (illustrative)

Depth shaped by the seafloor limit here (254 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 · Sep 1, 2026

measured
Seafloor depth
254 m
Sea-surface temperature
15.2°C
Distance from shore
4.0 km

Across the residency · 8 sightings

measured
Seafloor depth
88 m – 567 m
Sea-surface temperature
15.2°C – 16.3°C
Distance from shore
3.0 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 8 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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