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Monterey Bay

Galaxy – Residency

102nd sighting in Monterey Bay
Fluke of Galaxy
Galaxy Confirmed in the catalog @686
Jul 24 – Oct 5, 2026 · Monterey Bay

Monterey, Late Summer Stars

Two more looks at my tail this summer—Monterey just keeps knowing my face.

112 m
Deepest dive
3:52
Longest dive
78
Dives
Sightings
8
Days between first and last sighting
73

Dive stats modelled within real depth limits — not measured

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SightingSeafloorSea tempDeepest dive (modelled)
Jul 24, 2026275 m17.0°C112 m
Sep 15, 2026107 m16.3°C64 m
Sep 24, 2026231 m16.8°C25 m
Sep 25, 2026567 m16.5°C50 m
Sep 26, 2026124 m16.6°C83 m
Sep 27, 202670 m16.6°C46 m
Sep 28, 202694 m16.5°C50 m
Oct 5, 202690 m17.8°C71 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 24, 2026 — seafloor 275 m (measured), deepest dive 112 m (modelled)Jul 24Sep 15, 2026 — seafloor 107 m (measured), deepest dive 64 m (modelled)Sep 15Sep 24, 2026 — seafloor 231 m (measured), deepest dive 25 m (modelled)Sep 24Sep 25, 2026 — seafloor 567 m (measured), deepest dive 50 m (modelled)Sep 25Sep 26, 2026 — seafloor 124 m (measured), deepest dive 83 m (modelled)Sep 26Sep 27, 2026 — seafloor 70 m (measured), deepest dive 46 m (modelled)Sep 27Sep 28, 2026 — seafloor 94 m (measured), deepest dive 50 m (modelled)Sep 28Oct 5, 2026 — seafloor 90 m (measured), deepest dive 71 m (modelled)Oct 5

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

Dives

112 m
Deepest dive
3:52
Longest dive
78
Dives
26 m
Avg dive depth
8
Sightings
73
Days first → last

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Dive profile

modelled
075150112 mstartdive sequence (illustrative)

Depth shaped by the seafloor limit here (275 m) and the published dive-behaviour distribution. Modelled, not measured.

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Place

Where this happened · Jul 24, 2026

measured
Seafloor depth
275 m
Sea-surface temperature
17.0°C
Distance from shore
7.0 km

Across the residency · 8 sightings

measured
Seafloor depth
70 m – 567 m
Sea-surface temperature
16.3°C – 17.8°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 8 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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