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Monterey Bay

Grey Wind – Residency

44th sighting in Monterey Bay
Fluke of Grey Wind
Grey Wind Confirmed in the catalog @66975
Jun 24 – Jul 8, 2026 · Monterey Bay

Krill Season, Crowded Water

Mid-summer bay, packed with familiar faces and thick, glorious krill.

55 m
Deepest dive
2:25
Longest dive
39
Dives
Sightings
3
Days between first and last sighting
14

Dive stats modelled within real depth limits — not measured

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SightingSeafloorSea tempDeepest dive (modelled)
Jun 24, 202683 m16.6°C55 m
Jun 25, 202651 m16.7°C44 m
Jul 8, 2026-50 m15.1°C—

Seafloor and sea temperature measured · ✳ dives modelled

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Deepest dive against the seafloor, per sighting

Seafloor · measured Deepest dive · modelled
Jun 24, 2026 — seafloor 83 m (measured), deepest dive 55 m (modelled)Jun 24Jun 25, 2026 — seafloor 51 m (measured), deepest dive 44 m (modelled)Jun 25Jul 8, 2026 — seafloor -50 m (measured), deepest dive — (modelled)Jul 8

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

Dives

55 m
Deepest dive
2:25
Longest dive
39
Dives
20 m
Avg dive depth
3
Sightings
14
Days first → last

Dive metrics are modelled within real depth limits — not measured

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Dive profile

modelled
05010055 mstartdive sequence (illustrative)

Depth shaped by the seafloor limit here (83 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 · Jun 24, 2026

measured
Seafloor depth
83 m
Sea-surface temperature
16.6°C
Distance from shore
10.0 km

Across the residency · 3 sightings

measured
Seafloor depth
-50 m – 83 m
Sea-surface temperature
15.1°C – 16.7°C
Distance from shore
2.0 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 3 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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