Risa
Try Deep freeDeep
Risa
Try Deep freeDeep
Activity map — real sighting points on an OpenStreetMap basemap © OpenStreetMap contributors
Monterey Bay

Galaxy – Residency

94th sighting in Monterey Bay
Fluke of Galaxy
Galaxy Confirmed in the catalog @686
May 12 – Sep 16, 2025 · Monterey Bay

Monterey Summer

Four months in these familiar waters, letting the canyon currents carry me home again.

109 m
Deepest dive
3:01
Longest dive
95
Dives
Sightings
9
Days between first and last sighting
127

Dive stats modelled within real depth limits — not measured

Get actual dive data with Risa Deep →
SightingSeafloorSea tempDeepest dive (modelled)
May 12, 2025340 m13.6°C93 m
May 14, 202567 m12.9°C28 m
Jun 13, 2025106 m14.5°C40 m
Aug 5, 2025474 m14.9°C33 m
Aug 10, 2025911 m15.2°C34 m
Aug 13, 2025111 m15.4°C68 m
Sep 15, 202556 m16.9°C42 m
Sep 15, 202571 m16.9°C41 m
Sep 16, 2025191 m17.1°C109 m

Seafloor and sea temperature measured · ✳ dives modelled

Activity map — real sighting points on an OpenStreetMap basemap © OpenStreetMap contributors

Deepest dive against the seafloor, per sighting

Seafloor · measured Deepest dive · modelled
May 12, 2025 — seafloor 340 m (measured), deepest dive 93 m (modelled)May 12May 14, 2025 — seafloor 67 m (measured), deepest dive 28 m (modelled)May 14Jun 13, 2025 — seafloor 106 m (measured), deepest dive 40 m (modelled)Jun 13Aug 5, 2025 — seafloor 474 m (measured), deepest dive 33 m (modelled)Aug 5Aug 10, 2025 — seafloor 911 m (measured), deepest dive 34 m (modelled)Aug 10Aug 13, 2025 — seafloor 111 m (measured), deepest dive 68 m (modelled)Aug 13Sep 15, 2025 — seafloor 56 m (measured), deepest dive 42 m (modelled)Sep 15Sep 15, 2025 — seafloor 71 m (measured), deepest dive 41 m (modelled)Sep 15Sep 16, 2025 — seafloor 191 m (measured), deepest dive 109 m (modelled)Sep 16

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

Dives

109 m
Deepest dive
3:01
Longest dive
95
Dives
24 m
Avg dive depth
9
Sightings
127
Days first → last

Dive metrics are modelled within real depth limits — not measured

Get actual dive data with Risa Deep →

Dive profile

modelled
075150109 mstartdive sequence (illustrative)

Depth shaped by the seafloor limit here (191 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.

Unlock with Risa Deep

Place

Where this happened · Sep 16, 2025

measured
Seafloor depth
191 m
Sea-surface temperature
17.1°C
Distance from shore
3.0 km

Across the residency · 9 sightings

measured
Seafloor depth
56 m – 911 m
Sea-surface temperature
12.9°C – 17.1°C
Distance from shore
3.0 km – 12.0 km

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

Activity map — real sighting points on an OpenStreetMap basemap © OpenStreetMap contributors

Source records

This activity is assembled from 9 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).

Happywhale runs on donations: support Happywhale →

Breach is an independent project. It is not affiliated with, nor endorsed by, Happywhale or GBIF.