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Monterey Bay

CRC-12499 – Residency

3rd sighting in Monterey Bay
Fluke of CRC-12499
CRC-12499 Confirmed in the catalog @3012
Nov 27 – Dec 12, 2025 · Monterey Bay

Monterey Bay · Nov – Dec 2025

178 m
Deepest dive
7:34
Longest dive
41
Dives
Sightings
3
Days between first and last sighting
15
Deepest dive on record
178 m · this residency

Dive stats modelled within real depth limits — not measured

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SightingSeafloorSea tempDeepest dive (modelled)
Nov 27, 2025536 m—53 m
Nov 28, 2025296 m—178 m
Dec 12, 2025567 m—170 m

Seafloor and sea temperature measured · ✳ dives modelled

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Deepest dive against the seafloor, per sighting

Seafloor · measured Deepest dive · modelled
Nov 27, 2025 — seafloor 536 m (measured), deepest dive 53 m (modelled)Nov 27Nov 28, 2025 — seafloor 296 m (measured), deepest dive 178 m (modelled)Nov 28Dec 12, 2025 — seafloor 567 m (measured), deepest dive 170 m (modelled)Dec 12

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

Dives

178 m
Deepest dive
7:34
Longest dive
41
Dives
38 m
Avg dive depth
3
Sightings
15
Days first → last

Dive metrics are modelled within real depth limits — not measured

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Dive profile

modelled
0100200178 mstartdive sequence (illustrative)

Depth shaped by the seafloor limit here (296 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 · Nov 28, 2025

measured
Seafloor depth
296 m
Sea-surface temperature
—
Distance from shore
4.0 km

Across the residency · 3 sightings

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

Sources: GEBCO seafloor grid · PacIOOS coastline distance

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Source records

This activity is assembled from 3 catalogued encounters on Happywhale.

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