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Monterey Bay

Margarita – Residency

22nd sighting in Monterey Bay
Fluke of Margarita
Margarita Confirmed in the catalog @27264
May 25 – Sep 28, 2026 · Monterey Bay

Green Water, Good Company

Feed came up thick and the bay filled with familiar backs beside mine.

64 m
Deepest dive
2:38
Longest dive
61
Dives
Sightings
4
Days between first and last sighting
126

Dive stats modelled within real depth limits — not measured

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SightingSeafloorSea tempDeepest dive (modelled)
May 25, 202647 m13.6°C42 m
Jun 6, 2026109 m12.0°C56 m
Jul 13, 202681 m16.8°C64 m
Sep 28, 202690 m—43 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 25, 2026 — seafloor 47 m (measured), deepest dive 42 m (modelled)May 25Jun 6, 2026 — seafloor 109 m (measured), deepest dive 56 m (modelled)Jun 6Jul 13, 2026 — seafloor 81 m (measured), deepest dive 64 m (modelled)Jul 13Sep 28, 2026 — seafloor 90 m (measured), deepest dive 43 m (modelled)Sep 28

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

Dives

64 m
Deepest dive
2:38
Longest dive
61
Dives
19 m
Avg dive depth
4
Sightings
126
Days first → last

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Dive profile

modelled
05010064 mstartdive sequence (illustrative)

Depth shaped by the seafloor limit here (81 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 13, 2026

measured
Seafloor depth
81 m
Sea-surface temperature
16.8°C
Distance from shore
9.0 km

Across the residency · 4 sightings

measured
Seafloor depth
47 m – 109 m
Sea-surface temperature
12.0°C – 16.8°C
Distance from shore
2.0 km – 13.0 km

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

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Source records

This activity is assembled from 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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