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Monterey Bay

Stitches – Residency

104th sighting in Monterey Bay
Fluke of Stitches
Stitches Confirmed in the catalog @5
Jul 12 – Sep 25, 2026 · Monterey Bay

Monterey, Again and Always

Same bay, same scars, still showing up.

76 m
Deepest dive
3:13
Longest dive
87
Dives
Sightings
10
Days between first and last sighting
75

Dive stats modelled within real depth limits — not measured

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SightingSeafloorSea tempDeepest dive (modelled)
Jul 12, 202680 m16.2°C56 m
Jul 20, 2026115 m16.1°C35 m
Jul 21, 202696 m17.3°C76 m
Jul 25, 202666 m17.0°C55 m
Aug 18, 2026175 m17.1°C76 m
Aug 25, 202658 m16.6°C41 m
Sep 7, 2026314 m15.7°C25 m
Sep 9, 2026179 m15.8°C24 m
Sep 14, 2026250 m16.0°C61 m
Sep 25, 2026254 m16.7°C63 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 12, 2026 — seafloor 80 m (measured), deepest dive 56 m (modelled)Jul 12Jul 20, 2026 — seafloor 115 m (measured), deepest dive 35 m (modelled)Jul 20Jul 21, 2026 — seafloor 96 m (measured), deepest dive 76 m (modelled)Jul 21Jul 25, 2026 — seafloor 66 m (measured), deepest dive 55 m (modelled)Jul 25Aug 18, 2026 — seafloor 175 m (measured), deepest dive 76 m (modelled)Aug 18Aug 25, 2026 — seafloor 58 m (measured), deepest dive 41 m (modelled)Aug 25Sep 7, 2026 — seafloor 314 m (measured), deepest dive 25 m (modelled)Sep 7Sep 9, 2026 — seafloor 179 m (measured), deepest dive 24 m (modelled)Sep 9Sep 14, 2026 — seafloor 250 m (measured), deepest dive 61 m (modelled)Sep 14Sep 25, 2026 — seafloor 254 m (measured), deepest dive 63 m (modelled)Sep 25

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

Dives

76 m
Deepest dive
3:13
Longest dive
87
Dives
22 m
Avg dive depth
10
Sightings
75
Days first → last

Dive metrics are modelled within real depth limits — not measured

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Dive profile

modelled
05010076 mstartdive sequence (illustrative)

Depth shaped by the seafloor limit here (96 m) and the published dive-behaviour distribution. Modelled, not measured.

Deep Effort Score

Deep

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Place

Where this happened · Jul 21, 2026

measured
Seafloor depth
96 m
Sea-surface temperature
17.3°C
Distance from shore
2.0 km

Across the residency · 10 sightings

measured
Seafloor depth
58 m – 314 m
Sea-surface temperature
15.7°C – 17.3°C
Distance from shore
2.0 km – 11.0 km

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

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Source records

This activity is assembled from 10 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.

The photographs and fluke identifications behind every sighting are the work of the contributing observers — the citizen scientists, naturalists and operators who logged them, each named in the underlying GBIF occurrence record. Every activity links out to its source encounters on Happywhale. Basemaps © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL).

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