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Monterey Bay

Rip Curl – Residency

161st sighting in Monterey Bay
Fluke of Rip Curl
Rip Curl Confirmed in the catalog @276
Feb 8 – Oct 6, 2023 · Monterey Bay

Eight Months in the Bay

Found my rhythm in these familiar waters, surfacing again and again through the seasons.

120 m
Deepest dive
4:32
Longest dive
281
Dives
Sightings
23
Days between first and last sighting
240

Dive stats modelled within real depth limits — not measured

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SightingSeafloorSea tempDeepest dive (modelled)
Feb 8, 202340 m12.2°C27 m
Apr 1, 2023567 m11.8°C120 m
Apr 1, 202367 m12.3°C57 m
Apr 5, 2023567 m10.4°C73 m
Apr 8, 202387 m11.6°C43 m
Apr 9, 202380 m12.9°C71 m
Apr 10, 202384 m12.9°C67 m
Jul 2, 2023164 m15.3°C109 m
Jul 28, 202381 m14.4°C67 m
Jul 30, 202357 m14.0°C40 m
Jul 31, 202370 m14.1°C37 m
Aug 5, 202397 m14.2°C63 m
Aug 19, 202393 m17.3°C39 m
Aug 24, 20231,005 m17.7°C98 m
Sep 3, 202342 m17.2°C37 m
Sep 3, 2023181 m17.1°C81 m
Sep 5, 202358 m16.8°C47 m
Sep 14, 2023955 m15.4°C93 m

Seafloor and sea temperature measured · ✳ dives modelled ·

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Deepest dive against the seafloor, per sighting

Seafloor · measured Deepest dive · modelled
Feb 8, 2023 — seafloor 40 m (measured), deepest dive 27 m (modelled)Feb 8Apr 1, 2023 — seafloor 567 m (measured), deepest dive 120 m (modelled)Apr 1, 2023 — seafloor 67 m (measured), deepest dive 57 m (modelled)Apr 5, 2023 — seafloor 567 m (measured), deepest dive 73 m (modelled)Apr 8, 2023 — seafloor 87 m (measured), deepest dive 43 m (modelled)Apr 8Apr 9, 2023 — seafloor 80 m (measured), deepest dive 71 m (modelled)Apr 10, 2023 — seafloor 84 m (measured), deepest dive 67 m (modelled)Jul 2, 2023 — seafloor 164 m (measured), deepest dive 109 m (modelled)Jul 28, 2023 — seafloor 81 m (measured), deepest dive 67 m (modelled)Jul 28Jul 30, 2023 — seafloor 57 m (measured), deepest dive 40 m (modelled)Jul 31, 2023 — seafloor 70 m (measured), deepest dive 37 m (modelled)Aug 5, 2023 — seafloor 97 m (measured), deepest dive 63 m (modelled)Aug 19, 2023 — seafloor 93 m (measured), deepest dive 39 m (modelled)Aug 19Aug 24, 2023 — seafloor 1,005 m (measured), deepest dive 98 m (modelled)Sep 3, 2023 — seafloor 42 m (measured), deepest dive 37 m (modelled)Sep 3, 2023 — seafloor 181 m (measured), deepest dive 81 m (modelled)Sep 5, 2023 — seafloor 58 m (measured), deepest dive 47 m (modelled)Sep 5Sep 14, 2023 — seafloor 955 m (measured), deepest dive 93 m (modelled)Sep 23, 2023 — seafloor 362 m (measured), deepest dive 86 m (modelled)Sep 25, 2023 — seafloor 85 m (measured), deepest dive 62 m (modelled)Oct 1, 2023 — seafloor 36 m (measured), deepest dive 23 m (modelled)Oct 1Oct 5, 2023 — seafloor 92 m (measured), deepest dive 58 m (modelled)Oct 6, 2023 — seafloor 66 m (measured), deepest dive 56 m (modelled)

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

Dives

120 m
Deepest dive
4:32
Longest dive
281
Dives
25 m
Avg dive depth
23
Sightings
240
Days first → last

Dive metrics are modelled within real depth limits — not measured

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Dive profile

modelled
075150120 mstartdive sequence (illustrative)

Depth shaped by the seafloor limit here (567 m) and the published dive-behaviour distribution. Modelled, not measured.

Deep Effort Score

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Depth, duration and recovery resolved into a single number for this session.

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Place

Where this happened · Apr 1, 2023

measured
Seafloor depth
567 m
Sea-surface temperature
11.8°C
Distance from shore
16.0 km

Across the residency · 23 sightings

measured
Seafloor depth
36 m – 1,005 m
Sea-surface temperature
10.4°C – 17.7°C
Distance from shore
2.0 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 23 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.

The photographs and fluke identifications behind every sighting are the work of the contributing observers — the citizen scientists, naturalists and operators who logged them, each named in the underlying GBIF occurrence record. Every activity links out to its source encounters on Happywhale. Basemaps © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL).

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