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Monterey Bay

Rip Curl – Residency

171st sighting in Monterey Bay
Fluke of Rip Curl
Rip Curl Confirmed in the catalog @276
Sep 15 – Nov 26, 2024 · Monterey Bay

Back to the Bay

Same waters calling me home again, like they have for years.

89 m
Deepest dive
3:49
Longest dive
130
Dives
Sightings
10
Days between first and last sighting
72

Dive stats modelled within real depth limits — not measured

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SightingSeafloorSea tempDeepest dive (modelled)
Sep 15, 202472 m14.9°C66 m
Sep 26, 202474 m15.0°C47 m
Oct 5, 202443 m16.7°C38 m
Oct 19, 2024231 m14.5°C89 m
Oct 26, 2024116 m14.4°C51 m
Oct 30, 202454 m13.2°C49 m
Nov 1, 202475 m13.1°C46 m
Nov 5, 2024567 m13.1°C41 m
Nov 17, 202478 m12.4°C69 m
Nov 26, 202473 m12.9°C61 m

Seafloor and sea temperature measured · ✳ dives modelled

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Deepest dive against the seafloor, per sighting

Seafloor · measured Deepest dive · modelled
Sep 15, 2024 — seafloor 72 m (measured), deepest dive 66 m (modelled)Sep 15Sep 26, 2024 — seafloor 74 m (measured), deepest dive 47 m (modelled)Sep 26Oct 5, 2024 — seafloor 43 m (measured), deepest dive 38 m (modelled)Oct 5Oct 19, 2024 — seafloor 231 m (measured), deepest dive 89 m (modelled)Oct 19Oct 26, 2024 — seafloor 116 m (measured), deepest dive 51 m (modelled)Oct 26Oct 30, 2024 — seafloor 54 m (measured), deepest dive 49 m (modelled)Oct 30Nov 1, 2024 — seafloor 75 m (measured), deepest dive 46 m (modelled)Nov 1Nov 5, 2024 — seafloor 567 m (measured), deepest dive 41 m (modelled)Nov 5Nov 17, 2024 — seafloor 78 m (measured), deepest dive 69 m (modelled)Nov 17Nov 26, 2024 — seafloor 73 m (measured), deepest dive 61 m (modelled)Nov 26

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

Dives

89 m
Deepest dive
3:49
Longest dive
130
Dives
22 m
Avg dive depth
10
Sightings
72
Days first → last

Dive metrics are modelled within real depth limits — not measured

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Dive profile

modelled
05010089 mstartdive sequence (illustrative)

Depth shaped by the seafloor limit here (231 m) and the published dive-behaviour distribution. Modelled, not measured.

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Place

Where this happened · Oct 19, 2024

measured
Seafloor depth
231 m
Sea-surface temperature
14.5°C
Distance from shore
7.0 km

Across the residency · 10 sightings

measured
Seafloor depth
43 m – 567 m
Sea-surface temperature
12.4°C – 16.7°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 10 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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