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Monterey Bay

CRC-17619 – Residency

18th sighting in Monterey Bay
Fluke of CRC-17619
CRC-17619 Confirmed in the catalog @41532
Aug 15 – Oct 9, 2026 · Monterey Bay

Monterey, Right on Schedule

Cold water, good feeding, the kind of autumn that keeps me coming.

302 m
Deepest dive
6:43
Longest dive
134
Dives
Sightings
9
Days between first and last sighting
55
Deepest dive on record
302 m · this residency

Dive stats modelled within real depth limits — not measured

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SightingSeafloorSea tempDeepest dive (modelled)
Aug 15, 2026383 m16.8°C302 m
Sep 25, 202656 m—29 m
Sep 26, 202654 m—44 m
Sep 28, 202673 m—61 m
Sep 30, 2026147 m—57 m
Oct 3, 2026136 m—44 m
Oct 4, 2026124 m—74 m
Oct 5, 2026567 m—132 m
Oct 9, 2026567 m—296 m

Seafloor and sea temperature measured · ✳ dives modelled

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Deepest dive against the seafloor, per sighting

Seafloor · measured Deepest dive · modelled
Aug 15, 2026 — seafloor 383 m (measured), deepest dive 302 m (modelled)Aug 15Sep 25, 2026 — seafloor 56 m (measured), deepest dive 29 m (modelled)Sep 25Sep 26, 2026 — seafloor 54 m (measured), deepest dive 44 m (modelled)Sep 26Sep 28, 2026 — seafloor 73 m (measured), deepest dive 61 m (modelled)Sep 28Sep 30, 2026 — seafloor 147 m (measured), deepest dive 57 m (modelled)Sep 30Oct 3, 2026 — seafloor 136 m (measured), deepest dive 44 m (modelled)Oct 3Oct 4, 2026 — seafloor 124 m (measured), deepest dive 74 m (modelled)Oct 4Oct 5, 2026 — seafloor 567 m (measured), deepest dive 132 m (modelled)Oct 5Oct 9, 2026 — seafloor 567 m (measured), deepest dive 296 m (modelled)Oct 9

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

Dives

302 m
Deepest dive
6:43
Longest dive
134
Dives
29 m
Avg dive depth
9
Sightings
55
Days first → last

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Dive profile

modelled
0175350302 mstartdive sequence (illustrative)

Depth shaped by the seafloor limit here (383 m) and the published dive-behaviour distribution. Modelled, not measured.

Deep Effort Score

Deep

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Place

Where this happened · Aug 15, 2026

measured
Seafloor depth
383 m
Sea-surface temperature
16.8°C
Distance from shore
43.0 km

Across the residency · 9 sightings

measured
Seafloor depth
54 m – 567 m
Sea-surface temperature
16.8°C
Distance from shore
2.0 km – 43.0 km

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

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Source records

This activity is assembled from 9 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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