Rip Curl – Residency
138th sighting in Monterey Bay
Rip Curl @276
Aug 9 – Oct 7, 2022 · Monterey Bay
Summer's End in the Bay
Two months of perfect feeding, same sweet waters calling me back again and again.
267 m
Deepest dive
8:55
Longest dive
83
Dives
- Sightings
- 6
- Days between first and last sighting
- 59
Dive stats modelled within real depth limits — not measured
Get actual dive data with Risa Deep →| Sighting | Seafloor | Sea temp | Deepest dive (modelled) |
|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 9, 2022 | 249 m | 16.3°C | 94 m |
| Aug 11, 2022 | 76 m | 16.7°C | 50 m |
| Aug 25, 2022 | 567 m | 14.4°C | 267 m |
| Aug 27, 2022 | 1,347 m | 14.5°C | 198 m |
| Oct 6, 2022 | 567 m | 16.8°C | 122 m |
| Oct 7, 2022 | 567 m | 16.0°C | 50 m |
Seafloor and sea temperature measured · ✳ dives modelled
Deepest dive against the seafloor, per sighting
Seafloor · measured Deepest dive · modelledDepth runs down from the surface. The modelled dive never passes the measured seafloor at that sighting.
Dives
267 m
Deepest dive
8:55
Longest dive
83
Dives
32 m
Avg dive depth
6
Sightings
59
Days first → last
Dive metrics are modelled within real depth limits — not measured
Get actual dive data with Risa Deep →Dive profile
modelledDepth shaped by the seafloor limit here (567 m) and the published dive-behaviour distribution. Modelled, not measured.
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Where this happened · Aug 25, 2022
measured- Seafloor depth
- 567 m
- Sea-surface temperature
- 14.4°C
- Distance from shore
- 16.0 km
Across the residency · 6 sightings
measured- Seafloor depth
- 76 m – 1,347 m
- Sea-surface temperature
- 14.4°C – 16.8°C
- Distance from shore
- 11.0 km – 17.0 km
Sources: GEBCO seafloor grid · NASA JPL MUR sea temperature · PacIOOS coastline distance
Source records
This activity is assembled from 6 catalogued encounters on Happywhale.