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Monterey Bay

Nacho – Residency

55th sighting in Monterey Bay
Fluke of Nacho
Nacho Confirmed in the catalog @421
Aug 23 – Sep 29, 2025 · Monterey Bay

Monterey Bay September

The bay keeps calling me back, and I keep answering.

98 m
Deepest dive
4:14
Longest dive
49
Dives
Sightings
4
Days between first and last sighting
37

Dive stats modelled within real depth limits — not measured

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SightingSeafloorSea tempDeepest dive (modelled)
Aug 23, 202570 m13.7°C49 m
Sep 17, 2025587 m18.1°C98 m
Sep 17, 202582 m18.1°C65 m
Sep 29, 202548 m17.2°C43 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 23, 2025 — seafloor 70 m (measured), deepest dive 49 m (modelled)Aug 23Sep 17, 2025 — seafloor 587 m (measured), deepest dive 98 m (modelled)Sep 17Sep 17, 2025 — seafloor 82 m (measured), deepest dive 65 m (modelled)Sep 17Sep 29, 2025 — seafloor 48 m (measured), deepest dive 43 m (modelled)Sep 29

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

Dives

98 m
Deepest dive
4:14
Longest dive
49
Dives
22 m
Avg dive depth
4
Sightings
37
Days first → last

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Dive profile

modelled
05010098 mstartdive sequence (illustrative)

Depth shaped by the seafloor limit here (587 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 17, 2025

measured
Seafloor depth
587 m
Sea-surface temperature
18.1°C
Distance from shore
10.0 km

Across the residency · 4 sightings

measured
Seafloor depth
48 m – 587 m
Sea-surface temperature
13.7°C – 18.1°C
Distance from shore
3.0 km – 10.0 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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