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Monterey Bay

CRC-11718 – Residency

10th sighting in Monterey Bay
Fluke of CRC-11718
CRC-11718 Confirmed in the catalog @394
Sep 8 – 16, 2026 · Monterey Bay

Canyon Edge, September

Cold water's back on the menu, and I'm exactly where I belong.

114 m
Deepest dive
3:08
Longest dive
36
Dives
Sightings
4
Days between first and last sighting
8

Dive stats modelled within real depth limits — not measured

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SightingSeafloorSea tempDeepest dive (modelled)
Sep 8, 202692 m15.8°C55 m
Sep 9, 2026179 m15.8°C69 m
Sep 14, 2026251 m16.2°C114 m
Sep 16, 2026267 m15.6°C60 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 8, 2026 — seafloor 92 m (measured), deepest dive 55 m (modelled)Sep 8Sep 9, 2026 — seafloor 179 m (measured), deepest dive 69 m (modelled)Sep 9Sep 14, 2026 — seafloor 251 m (measured), deepest dive 114 m (modelled)Sep 14Sep 16, 2026 — seafloor 267 m (measured), deepest dive 60 m (modelled)Sep 16

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

Dives

114 m
Deepest dive
3:08
Longest dive
36
Dives
26 m
Avg dive depth
4
Sightings
8
Days first → last

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Dive profile

modelled
075150114 mstartdive sequence (illustrative)

Depth shaped by the seafloor limit here (251 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 14, 2026

measured
Seafloor depth
251 m
Sea-surface temperature
16.2°C
Distance from shore
6.0 km

Across the residency · 4 sightings

measured
Seafloor depth
92 m – 267 m
Sea-surface temperature
15.6°C – 16.2°C
Distance from shore
3.0 km – 6.0 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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