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Monterey Bay

San Andrea – Residency

73rd sighting in Monterey Bay
Fluke of San Andrea
San Andrea Confirmed in the catalog @3390
Jun 8 – Jul 5, 2025 · Monterey Bay

Monterey Bay · Jun – Jul 2025

61 m
Deepest dive
2:30
Longest dive
26
Dives
Sightings
4
Days between first and last sighting
27

Dive stats modelled within real depth limits — not measured

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SightingSeafloorSea tempDeepest dive (modelled)
Jun 8, 2025141 m15.2°C61 m
Jul 4, 202556 m13.4°C29 m
Jul 5, 2025567 m13.2°C38 m
Jul 5, 202556 m13.6°C41 m

Seafloor and sea temperature measured · ✳ dives modelled

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Deepest dive against the seafloor, per sighting

Seafloor · measured Deepest dive · modelled
Jun 8, 2025 — seafloor 141 m (measured), deepest dive 61 m (modelled)Jun 8Jul 4, 2025 — seafloor 56 m (measured), deepest dive 29 m (modelled)Jul 4Jul 5, 2025 — seafloor 567 m (measured), deepest dive 38 m (modelled)Jul 5Jul 5, 2025 — seafloor 56 m (measured), deepest dive 41 m (modelled)Jul 5

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

Dives

61 m
Deepest dive
2:30
Longest dive
26
Dives
25 m
Avg dive depth
4
Sightings
27
Days first → last

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Dive profile

modelled
05010061 mstartdive sequence (illustrative)

Depth shaped by the seafloor limit here (141 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 · Jun 8, 2025

measured
Seafloor depth
141 m
Sea-surface temperature
15.2°C
Distance from shore
6.0 km

Across the residency · 4 sightings

measured
Seafloor depth
56 m – 567 m
Sea-surface temperature
13.2°C – 15.2°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 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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