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Monterey Bay

Rip Curl – Residency

195th sighting in Monterey Bay
Fluke of Rip Curl
Rip Curl Confirmed in the catalog @276
Apr 14 – Nov 9, 2025 · Monterey Bay

Monterey Bay Marathon

Seven months in my favorite neighborhood, showing up whenever the mood struck.

232 m
Deepest dive
11:33
Longest dive
328
Dives
Sightings
24
Days between first and last sighting
209

Dive stats modelled within real depth limits — not measured

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SightingSeafloorSea tempDeepest dive (modelled)
Apr 14, 202590 m12.7°C70 m
Jun 8, 2025111 m15.2°C102 m
Jun 10, 202564 m14.4°C54 m
Jun 10, 202558 m14.4°C47 m
Jun 23, 202552 m13.0°C28 m
Jun 28, 202540 m13.0°C35 m
Jun 29, 2025466 m13.1°C87 m
Jul 2, 202566 m13.5°C48 m
Jul 12, 202585 m12.9°C71 m
Jul 14, 202563 m13.0°C33 m
Jul 20, 2025221 m15.8°C78 m
Aug 19, 202577 m14.8°C67 m
Aug 19, 2025567 m15.0°C232 m
Aug 19, 202564 m14.7°C40 m
Aug 27, 202595 m15.2°C64 m
Oct 14, 2025177 m16.0°C37 m
Oct 15, 2025245 m15.3°C161 m
Oct 16, 2025149 m15.3°C130 m

Seafloor and sea temperature measured · ✳ dives modelled ·

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Deepest dive against the seafloor, per sighting

Seafloor · measured Deepest dive · modelled
Apr 14, 2025 — seafloor 90 m (measured), deepest dive 70 m (modelled)Apr 14Jun 8, 2025 — seafloor 111 m (measured), deepest dive 102 m (modelled)Jun 10, 2025 — seafloor 64 m (measured), deepest dive 54 m (modelled)Jun 10, 2025 — seafloor 58 m (measured), deepest dive 47 m (modelled)Jun 23, 2025 — seafloor 52 m (measured), deepest dive 28 m (modelled)Jun 23Jun 28, 2025 — seafloor 40 m (measured), deepest dive 35 m (modelled)Jun 29, 2025 — seafloor 466 m (measured), deepest dive 87 m (modelled)Jul 2, 2025 — seafloor 66 m (measured), deepest dive 48 m (modelled)Jul 12, 2025 — seafloor 85 m (measured), deepest dive 71 m (modelled)Jul 12Jul 14, 2025 — seafloor 63 m (measured), deepest dive 33 m (modelled)Jul 20, 2025 — seafloor 221 m (measured), deepest dive 78 m (modelled)Aug 19, 2025 — seafloor 77 m (measured), deepest dive 67 m (modelled)Aug 19, 2025 — seafloor 567 m (measured), deepest dive 232 m (modelled)Aug 19Aug 19, 2025 — seafloor 64 m (measured), deepest dive 40 m (modelled)Aug 27, 2025 — seafloor 95 m (measured), deepest dive 64 m (modelled)Oct 14, 2025 — seafloor 177 m (measured), deepest dive 37 m (modelled)Oct 15, 2025 — seafloor 245 m (measured), deepest dive 161 m (modelled)Oct 15Oct 16, 2025 — seafloor 149 m (measured), deepest dive 130 m (modelled)Oct 16, 2025 — seafloor 254 m (measured), deepest dive 56 m (modelled)Oct 18, 2025 — seafloor 254 m (measured), deepest dive 30 m (modelled)Oct 20, 2025 — seafloor 12 m (measured), deepest dive 11 m (modelled)Oct 20Oct 21, 2025 — seafloor 117 m (measured), deepest dive 106 m (modelled)Nov 8, 2025 — seafloor 81 m (measured), deepest dive 24 m (modelled)Nov 9, 2025 — seafloor 81 m (measured), deepest dive 42 m (modelled)

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

Dives

232 m
Deepest dive
11:33
Longest dive
328
Dives
24 m
Avg dive depth
24
Sightings
209
Days first → last

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Dive profile

modelled
0125250232 mstartdive sequence (illustrative)

Depth shaped by the seafloor limit here (567 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 · Aug 19, 2025

measured
Seafloor depth
567 m
Sea-surface temperature
15.0°C
Distance from shore
16.0 km

Across the residency · 24 sightings

measured
Seafloor depth
12 m – 567 m
Sea-surface temperature
12.7°C – 16.0°C
Distance from shore
1.0 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 24 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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