Right Eye – Residency
66th sighting in Monterey Bay
Right Eye @606
May 24 – Oct 21, 2025 · Monterey Bay
Summer in the Bay
Five months drifting these familiar waters, coming up for air when the mood strikes.
145 m
Deepest dive
5:15
Longest dive
93
Dives
- Sightings
- 8
- Days between first and last sighting
- 150
Dive stats modelled within real depth limits — not measured
Get actual dive data with Risa Deep →| Sighting | Seafloor | Sea temp | Deepest dive (modelled) |
|---|---|---|---|
| May 24, 2025 | 63 m | 12.7°C | 50 m |
| Jul 11, 2025 | 650 m | 12.9°C | 50 m |
| Jul 14, 2025 | 465 m | 12.9°C | 61 m |
| Jul 21, 2025 | 128 m | 15.7°C | 40 m |
| Oct 7, 2025 | 380 m | 17.6°C | 145 m |
| Oct 20, 2025 | 12 m | 16.0°C | 11 m |
| Oct 20, 2025 | 33 m | 16.0°C | 26 m |
| Oct 21, 2025 | 80 m | 16.0°C | 52 m |
Seafloor and sea temperature measured · ✳ dives modelled
Deepest dive against the seafloor, per sighting
Seafloor · measured Deepest dive · modelledDepth runs down from the surface. The modelled dive never passes the measured seafloor at that sighting.
Dives
145 m
Deepest dive
5:15
Longest dive
93
Dives
20 m
Avg dive depth
8
Sightings
150
Days first → last
Dive metrics are modelled within real depth limits — not measured
Get actual dive data with Risa Deep →Dive profile
modelledDepth shaped by the seafloor limit here (380 m) and the published dive-behaviour distribution. Modelled, not measured.
Deep Effort Score
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Where this happened · Oct 7, 2025
measured- Seafloor depth
- 380 m
- Sea-surface temperature
- 17.6°C
- Distance from shore
- 8.0 km
Across the residency · 8 sightings
measured- Seafloor depth
- 12 m – 650 m
- Sea-surface temperature
- 12.7°C – 17.6°C
- Distance from shore
- 2.0 km – 15.0 km
Sources: GEBCO seafloor grid · NASA JPL MUR sea temperature · PacIOOS coastline distance
Source records
This activity is assembled from 8 catalogued encounters on Happywhale.