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Monterey Bay

Pacman – Residency

73rd sighting in Monterey Bay
Fluke of Pacman
Pacman Confirmed in the catalog @6
Jul 20 – Sep 25, 2026 · Monterey Bay

Monterey Bay Encore

Late summer light, deep water, folks pointing cameras my way—this bay just gets me.

108 m
Deepest dive
3:50
Longest dive
147
Dives
Sightings
13
Days between first and last sighting
67

Dive stats modelled within real depth limits — not measured

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SightingSeafloorSea tempDeepest dive (modelled)
Jul 20, 202659 m16.1°C21 m
Jul 23, 202672 m17.0°C32 m
Jul 26, 202672 m16.9°C52 m
Jul 28, 2026141 m16.9°C66 m
Aug 6, 202680 m17.1°C69 m
Aug 7, 202658 m17.5°C46 m
Aug 31, 2026567 m15.5°C62 m
Sep 1, 2026247 m15.2°C108 m
Sep 1, 2026126 m15.3°C43 m
Sep 3, 2026288 m15.3°C86 m
Sep 5, 2026110 m16.0°C71 m
Sep 18, 2026175 m15.7°C50 m
Sep 25, 2026567 m16.5°C82 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 20, 2026 — seafloor 59 m (measured), deepest dive 21 m (modelled)Jul 20Jul 23, 2026 — seafloor 72 m (measured), deepest dive 32 m (modelled)Jul 26, 2026 — seafloor 72 m (measured), deepest dive 52 m (modelled)Jul 28, 2026 — seafloor 141 m (measured), deepest dive 66 m (modelled)Jul 28Aug 6, 2026 — seafloor 80 m (measured), deepest dive 69 m (modelled)Aug 7, 2026 — seafloor 58 m (measured), deepest dive 46 m (modelled)Aug 31, 2026 — seafloor 567 m (measured), deepest dive 62 m (modelled)Aug 31Sep 1, 2026 — seafloor 247 m (measured), deepest dive 108 m (modelled)Sep 1, 2026 — seafloor 126 m (measured), deepest dive 43 m (modelled)Sep 3, 2026 — seafloor 288 m (measured), deepest dive 86 m (modelled)Sep 3Sep 5, 2026 — seafloor 110 m (measured), deepest dive 71 m (modelled)Sep 18, 2026 — seafloor 175 m (measured), deepest dive 50 m (modelled)Sep 25, 2026 — seafloor 567 m (measured), deepest dive 82 m (modelled)Sep 25

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

Dives

108 m
Deepest dive
3:50
Longest dive
147
Dives
25 m
Avg dive depth
13
Sightings
67
Days first → last

Dive metrics are modelled within real depth limits — not measured

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Dive profile

modelled
075150108 mstartdive sequence (illustrative)

Depth shaped by the seafloor limit here (247 m) and the published dive-behaviour distribution. Modelled, not measured.

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Place

Where this happened · Sep 1, 2026

measured
Seafloor depth
247 m
Sea-surface temperature
15.2°C
Distance from shore
4.0 km

Across the residency · 13 sightings

measured
Seafloor depth
58 m – 567 m
Sea-surface temperature
15.2°C – 17.5°C
Distance from shore
2.0 km – 16.0 km

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

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Source records

This activity is assembled from 13 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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