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Monterey Bay

CRC-16040 – Residency

86th sighting in Monterey Bay
Fluke of CRC-16040
CRC-16040 Confirmed in the catalog @7029
Jul 22 – Aug 20, 2025 · Monterey Bay

Monterey Bay · Jul – Aug 2025

86 m
Deepest dive
3:25
Longest dive
65
Dives
Sightings
4
Days between first and last sighting
29

Dive stats modelled within real depth limits — not measured

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SightingSeafloorSea tempDeepest dive (modelled)
Jul 22, 202596 m16.0°C61 m
Jul 22, 2025533 m15.9°C86 m
Jul 22, 202596 m16.0°C25 m
Aug 20, 202566 m14.4°C56 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 22, 2025 — seafloor 96 m (measured), deepest dive 61 m (modelled)Jul 22Jul 22, 2025 — seafloor 533 m (measured), deepest dive 86 m (modelled)Jul 22Jul 22, 2025 — seafloor 96 m (measured), deepest dive 25 m (modelled)Jul 22Aug 20, 2025 — seafloor 66 m (measured), deepest dive 56 m (modelled)Aug 20

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

Dives

86 m
Deepest dive
3:25
Longest dive
65
Dives
21 m
Avg dive depth
4
Sightings
29
Days first → last

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Dive profile

modelled
05010086 mstartdive sequence (illustrative)

Depth shaped by the seafloor limit here (533 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 · Jul 22, 2025

measured
Seafloor depth
533 m
Sea-surface temperature
15.9°C
Distance from shore
14.0 km

Across the residency · 4 sightings

measured
Seafloor depth
66 m – 533 m
Sea-surface temperature
14.4°C – 16.0°C
Distance from shore
3.0 km – 14.0 km

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

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Source records

This activity is assembled from 4 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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