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Monterey Bay

CRC-21266 – Residency

10th sighting in Monterey Bay
Fluke of CRC-21266
CRC-21266 Confirmed in the catalog @28217
Sep 28 – Oct 6, 2026 · Monterey Bay

Canyon Edge, Working the Feed

Autumn upwelling, the canyon stacked thick—exactly where I expected it.

140 m
Deepest dive
5:18
Longest dive
55
Dives
Sightings
4
Days between first and last sighting
8
Deepest dive on record
140 m · this residency

Dive stats modelled within real depth limits — not measured

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SightingSeafloorSea tempDeepest dive (modelled)
Sep 28, 202673 m—58 m
Oct 5, 2026278 m—140 m
Oct 5, 202683 m—58 m
Oct 6, 2026567 m—35 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 28, 2026 — seafloor 73 m (measured), deepest dive 58 m (modelled)Sep 28Oct 5, 2026 — seafloor 278 m (measured), deepest dive 140 m (modelled)Oct 5Oct 5, 2026 — seafloor 83 m (measured), deepest dive 58 m (modelled)Oct 5Oct 6, 2026 — seafloor 567 m (measured), deepest dive 35 m (modelled)Oct 6

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

Dives

140 m
Deepest dive
5:18
Longest dive
55
Dives
26 m
Avg dive depth
4
Sightings
8
Days first → last

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Dive profile

modelled
075150140 mstartdive sequence (illustrative)

Depth shaped by the seafloor limit here (278 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 · Oct 5, 2026

measured
Seafloor depth
278 m
Sea-surface temperature
—
Distance from shore
5.0 km

Across the residency · 4 sightings

measured
Seafloor depth
73 m – 567 m
Sea-surface temperature
—
Distance from shore
5.0 km – 16.0 km

Sources: GEBCO seafloor grid · 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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