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Monterey Bay

Fallon – Residency

161st sighting in Monterey Bay
Fluke of Fallon
Fallon Confirmed in the catalog @4517
May 23 – Oct 14, 2026 · Monterey Bay

Summer on the Shelf

The canyon feeds me, the cliffs watch, life's good out here.

361 m
Deepest dive
12:17
Longest dive
160
Dives
Sightings
15
Days between first and last sighting
143

Dive stats modelled within real depth limits — not measured

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SightingSeafloorSea tempDeepest dive (modelled)
May 23, 2026116 m12.4°C82 m
May 29, 202680 m13.6°C68 m
Jul 2, 202629 m15.6°C21 m
Aug 29, 2026306 m15.5°C95 m
Sep 21, 2026188 m16.7°C33 m
Sep 24, 2026109 m16.8°C62 m
Sep 27, 202663 m16.6°C48 m
Sep 28, 202673 m16.5°C46 m
Sep 30, 2026147 m16.6°C103 m
Oct 2, 2026254 m17.9°C113 m
Oct 3, 2026155 m18.0°C53 m
Oct 11, 2026599 m17.3°C361 m
Oct 12, 2026143 m16.8°C45 m
Oct 13, 2026153 m17.1°C79 m
Oct 14, 2026136 m17.5°C80 m

Seafloor and sea temperature measured · ✳ dives modelled

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Deepest dive against the seafloor, per sighting

Seafloor · measured Deepest dive · modelled
May 23, 2026 — seafloor 116 m (measured), deepest dive 82 m (modelled)May 23May 29, 2026 — seafloor 80 m (measured), deepest dive 68 m (modelled)Jul 2, 2026 — seafloor 29 m (measured), deepest dive 21 m (modelled)Aug 29, 2026 — seafloor 306 m (measured), deepest dive 95 m (modelled)Aug 29Sep 21, 2026 — seafloor 188 m (measured), deepest dive 33 m (modelled)Sep 24, 2026 — seafloor 109 m (measured), deepest dive 62 m (modelled)Sep 27, 2026 — seafloor 63 m (measured), deepest dive 48 m (modelled)Sep 27Sep 28, 2026 — seafloor 73 m (measured), deepest dive 46 m (modelled)Sep 30, 2026 — seafloor 147 m (measured), deepest dive 103 m (modelled)Oct 2, 2026 — seafloor 254 m (measured), deepest dive 113 m (modelled)Oct 2Oct 3, 2026 — seafloor 155 m (measured), deepest dive 53 m (modelled)Oct 11, 2026 — seafloor 599 m (measured), deepest dive 361 m (modelled)Oct 12, 2026 — seafloor 143 m (measured), deepest dive 45 m (modelled)Oct 12Oct 13, 2026 — seafloor 153 m (measured), deepest dive 79 m (modelled)Oct 14, 2026 — seafloor 136 m (measured), deepest dive 80 m (modelled)

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

Dives

361 m
Deepest dive
12:17
Longest dive
160
Dives
30 m
Avg dive depth
15
Sightings
143
Days first → last

Dive metrics are modelled within real depth limits — not measured

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Dive profile

modelled
0200400361 mstartdive sequence (illustrative)

Depth shaped by the seafloor limit here (599 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 · Oct 11, 2026

measured
Seafloor depth
599 m
Sea-surface temperature
17.3°C
Distance from shore
13.0 km

Across the residency · 15 sightings

measured
Seafloor depth
29 m – 599 m
Sea-surface temperature
12.4°C – 18.0°C
Distance from shore
2.0 km – 13.0 km

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

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Source records

This activity is assembled from 15 catalogued encounters on Happywhale.

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