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Monterey Bay

CRC-11888 – Residency

24th sighting in Monterey Bay
Fluke of CRC-11888
CRC-11888 Confirmed in the catalog @2508
Jun 18 – Oct 8, 2026 · Monterey Bay

Bay Front and Center

Cameras kept finding me all summer over that cold rich edge.

68 m
Deepest dive
3:12
Longest dive
135
Dives
Sightings
9
Days between first and last sighting
112

Dive stats modelled within real depth limits — not measured

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SightingSeafloorSea tempDeepest dive (modelled)
Jun 18, 202647 m15.3°C41 m
Jun 26, 202689 m16.5°C68 m
Jun 29, 202664 m16.2°C49 m
Jun 30, 202651 m16.1°C30 m
Jul 1, 202627 m15.6°C23 m
Aug 4, 202678 m17.3°C65 m
Aug 5, 202675 m17.1°C56 m
Oct 3, 2026155 m18.0°C51 m
Oct 8, 2026545 m19.3°C58 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 18, 2026 — seafloor 47 m (measured), deepest dive 41 m (modelled)Jun 18Jun 26, 2026 — seafloor 89 m (measured), deepest dive 68 m (modelled)Jun 26Jun 29, 2026 — seafloor 64 m (measured), deepest dive 49 m (modelled)Jun 29Jun 30, 2026 — seafloor 51 m (measured), deepest dive 30 m (modelled)Jun 30Jul 1, 2026 — seafloor 27 m (measured), deepest dive 23 m (modelled)Jul 1Aug 4, 2026 — seafloor 78 m (measured), deepest dive 65 m (modelled)Aug 4Aug 5, 2026 — seafloor 75 m (measured), deepest dive 56 m (modelled)Aug 5Oct 3, 2026 — seafloor 155 m (measured), deepest dive 51 m (modelled)Oct 3Oct 8, 2026 — seafloor 545 m (measured), deepest dive 58 m (modelled)Oct 8

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

Dives

68 m
Deepest dive
3:12
Longest dive
135
Dives
21 m
Avg dive depth
9
Sightings
112
Days first → last

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Dive profile

modelled
05010068 mstartdive sequence (illustrative)

Depth shaped by the seafloor limit here (89 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 26, 2026

measured
Seafloor depth
89 m
Sea-surface temperature
16.5°C
Distance from shore
11.0 km

Across the residency · 9 sightings

measured
Seafloor depth
27 m – 545 m
Sea-surface temperature
15.3°C – 19.3°C
Distance from shore
2.0 km – 14.0 km

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

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Source records

This activity is assembled from 9 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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