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Monterey Bay

CRC-16193 – Residency

30th sighting in Monterey Bay
Fluke of CRC-16193
CRC-16193 Confirmed in the catalog @3376
Sep 7 – 12, 2026 · Monterey Bay

Autumn on the Shelf

Found the cold green water again this September—well, that lens found me twice.

98 m
Deepest dive
2:53
Longest dive
19
Dives
Sightings
3
Days between first and last sighting
5

Dive stats modelled within real depth limits — not measured

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SightingSeafloorSea tempDeepest dive (modelled)
Sep 7, 202694 m15.6°C29 m
Sep 8, 2026123 m15.9°C98 m
Sep 12, 2026102 m17.0°C54 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 7, 2026 — seafloor 94 m (measured), deepest dive 29 m (modelled)Sep 7Sep 8, 2026 — seafloor 123 m (measured), deepest dive 98 m (modelled)Sep 8Sep 12, 2026 — seafloor 102 m (measured), deepest dive 54 m (modelled)Sep 12

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

Dives

98 m
Deepest dive
2:53
Longest dive
19
Dives
24 m
Avg dive depth
3
Sightings
5
Days first → last

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Dive profile

modelled
05010098 mstartdive sequence (illustrative)

Depth shaped by the seafloor limit here (123 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 · Sep 8, 2026

measured
Seafloor depth
123 m
Sea-surface temperature
15.9°C
Distance from shore
4.0 km

Across the residency · 3 sightings

measured
Seafloor depth
94 m – 123 m
Sea-surface temperature
15.6°C – 17.0°C
Distance from shore
4.0 km – 11.0 km

Sources: GEBCO seafloor grid · NASA JPL MUR sea temperature · PacIOOS coastline distance

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Source records

This activity is assembled from 3 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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