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Monterey Bay

Sarafinny – Residency

64th sighting in Monterey Bay
Fluke of Sarafinny
Sarafinny Confirmed in the catalog @3241
Feb 28 – Oct 9, 2026 · Monterey Bay

Same Green Shelf Again

Spring to fall, I never really leave this water.

125 m
Deepest dive
5:07
Longest dive
191
Dives
Sightings
11
Days between first and last sighting
223

Dive stats modelled within real depth limits — not measured

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SightingSeafloorSea tempDeepest dive (modelled)
Feb 28, 20261,904 m14.5°C86 m
May 19, 2026119 m11.6°C106 m
Jul 5, 202635 m16.4°C32 m
Sep 5, 2026110 m16.0°C54 m
Sep 6, 2026567 m15.5°C125 m
Sep 7, 202694 m15.6°C37 m
Sep 10, 2026185 m17.7°C33 m
Oct 3, 2026155 m18.0°C82 m
Oct 5, 2026287 m17.8°C118 m
Oct 8, 2026158 m19.4°C79 m
Oct 9, 2026105 m18.3°C91 m

Seafloor and sea temperature measured · ✳ dives modelled

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Deepest dive against the seafloor, per sighting

Seafloor · measured Deepest dive · modelled
Feb 28, 2026 — seafloor 1,904 m (measured), deepest dive 86 m (modelled)Feb 28May 19, 2026 — seafloor 119 m (measured), deepest dive 106 m (modelled)May 19Jul 5, 2026 — seafloor 35 m (measured), deepest dive 32 m (modelled)Jul 5Sep 5, 2026 — seafloor 110 m (measured), deepest dive 54 m (modelled)Sep 5Sep 6, 2026 — seafloor 567 m (measured), deepest dive 125 m (modelled)Sep 6Sep 7, 2026 — seafloor 94 m (measured), deepest dive 37 m (modelled)Sep 7Sep 10, 2026 — seafloor 185 m (measured), deepest dive 33 m (modelled)Sep 10Oct 3, 2026 — seafloor 155 m (measured), deepest dive 82 m (modelled)Oct 3Oct 5, 2026 — seafloor 287 m (measured), deepest dive 118 m (modelled)Oct 5Oct 8, 2026 — seafloor 158 m (measured), deepest dive 79 m (modelled)Oct 8Oct 9, 2026 — seafloor 105 m (measured), deepest dive 91 m (modelled)Oct 9

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

Dives

125 m
Deepest dive
5:07
Longest dive
191
Dives
24 m
Avg dive depth
11
Sightings
223
Days first → last

Dive metrics are modelled within real depth limits — not measured

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Dive profile

modelled
075150125 mstartdive sequence (illustrative)

Depth shaped by the seafloor limit here (567 m) and the published dive-behaviour distribution. Modelled, not measured.

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Place

Where this happened · Sep 6, 2026

measured
Seafloor depth
567 m
Sea-surface temperature
15.5°C
Distance from shore
16.0 km

Across the residency · 11 sightings

measured
Seafloor depth
35 m – 1,904 m
Sea-surface temperature
11.6°C – 19.4°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 11 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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