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Monterey Bay

CRC-15211 – Residency

12th sighting in Monterey Bay
Fluke of CRC-15211
CRC-15211 Confirmed in the catalog @351
Jul 2 – Sep 25, 2026 · Monterey Bay

Shelf Living, Midsummer Edition

Green water, good feeding, boats keeping their distance nicely.

243 m
Deepest dive
10:13
Longest dive
56
Dives
Sightings
4
Days between first and last sighting
85
Deepest dive on record
243 m · this residency

Dive stats modelled within real depth limits — not measured

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SightingSeafloorSea tempDeepest dive (modelled)
Jul 2, 2026567 m15.6°C243 m
Aug 8, 202639 m17.3°C29 m
Aug 10, 2026155 m17.1°C72 m
Sep 25, 202656 m—45 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 2, 2026 — seafloor 567 m (measured), deepest dive 243 m (modelled)Jul 2Aug 8, 2026 — seafloor 39 m (measured), deepest dive 29 m (modelled)Aug 8Aug 10, 2026 — seafloor 155 m (measured), deepest dive 72 m (modelled)Aug 10Sep 25, 2026 — seafloor 56 m (measured), deepest dive 45 m (modelled)Sep 25

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

Dives

243 m
Deepest dive
10:13
Longest dive
56
Dives
27 m
Avg dive depth
4
Sightings
85
Days first → last

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Dive profile

modelled
0125250243 mstartdive sequence (illustrative)

Depth shaped by the seafloor limit here (567 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 · Jul 2, 2026

measured
Seafloor depth
567 m
Sea-surface temperature
15.6°C
Distance from shore
16.0 km

Across the residency · 4 sightings

measured
Seafloor depth
39 m – 567 m
Sea-surface temperature
15.6°C – 17.3°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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