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Monterey Bay

La Guapa – Residency

14th sighting in Monterey Bay
Fluke of La Guapa
La Guapa Confirmed in the catalog @3235
Jul 24 – Sep 12, 2025 · Monterey Bay

Monterey Bay · Jul – Sep 2025

212 m
Deepest dive
8:49
Longest dive
49
Dives
Sightings
5
Days between first and last sighting
50

Dive stats modelled within real depth limits — not measured

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SightingSeafloorSea tempDeepest dive (modelled)
Jul 24, 202548 m—30 m
Aug 4, 2025345 m—123 m
Aug 4, 2025357 m—212 m
Sep 12, 2025214 m—106 m
Sep 12, 2025101 m—46 m

Seafloor and sea temperature measured · ✳ dives modelled

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Deepest dive against the seafloor, per sighting

Seafloor · measured Deepest dive · modelled
Jul 24, 2025 — seafloor 48 m (measured), deepest dive 30 m (modelled)Jul 24Aug 4, 2025 — seafloor 345 m (measured), deepest dive 123 m (modelled)Aug 4Aug 4, 2025 — seafloor 357 m (measured), deepest dive 212 m (modelled)Aug 4Sep 12, 2025 — seafloor 214 m (measured), deepest dive 106 m (modelled)Sep 12Sep 12, 2025 — seafloor 101 m (measured), deepest dive 46 m (modelled)Sep 12

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

Dives

212 m
Deepest dive
8:49
Longest dive
49
Dives
33 m
Avg dive depth
5
Sightings
50
Days first → last

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Dive profile

modelled
0125250212 mstartdive sequence (illustrative)

Depth shaped by the seafloor limit here (357 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 4, 2025

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

Across the residency · 5 sightings

measured
Seafloor depth
48 m – 357 m
Sea-surface temperature
—
Distance from shore
1.0 km – 12.0 km

Sources: GEBCO seafloor grid · PacIOOS coastline distance

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Source records

This activity is assembled from 5 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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