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Monterey Bay

Clubs – Residency

226th sighting in Monterey Bay
Fluke of Clubs
Clubs Confirmed in the catalog @7083
May 18 – Oct 16, 2026 · Monterey Bay

Cold Water, Good Company

Lunge lines running strong this early summer, exactly how I like the bay.

88 m
Deepest dive
3:31
Longest dive
148
Dives
Sightings
11
Days between first and last sighting
151

Dive stats modelled within real depth limits — not measured

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SightingSeafloorSea tempDeepest dive (modelled)
May 18, 202694 m11.4°C41 m
Jul 23, 2026144 m17.0°C84 m
Jul 25, 202666 m17.0°C56 m
Jul 31, 2026254 m16.8°C88 m
Aug 2, 202646 m16.8°C33 m
Sep 24, 202665 m16.9°C27 m
Sep 25, 202691 m16.6°C74 m
Sep 28, 202671 m16.7°C57 m
Sep 29, 202657 m16.7°C45 m
Oct 12, 202626 m16.9°C23 m
Oct 16, 20261,279 m18.9°C40 m

Seafloor and sea temperature measured · ✳ dives modelled

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Deepest dive against the seafloor, per sighting

Seafloor · measured Deepest dive · modelled
May 18, 2026 — seafloor 94 m (measured), deepest dive 41 m (modelled)May 18Jul 23, 2026 — seafloor 144 m (measured), deepest dive 84 m (modelled)Jul 23Jul 25, 2026 — seafloor 66 m (measured), deepest dive 56 m (modelled)Jul 25Jul 31, 2026 — seafloor 254 m (measured), deepest dive 88 m (modelled)Jul 31Aug 2, 2026 — seafloor 46 m (measured), deepest dive 33 m (modelled)Aug 2Sep 24, 2026 — seafloor 65 m (measured), deepest dive 27 m (modelled)Sep 24Sep 25, 2026 — seafloor 91 m (measured), deepest dive 74 m (modelled)Sep 25Sep 28, 2026 — seafloor 71 m (measured), deepest dive 57 m (modelled)Sep 28Sep 29, 2026 — seafloor 57 m (measured), deepest dive 45 m (modelled)Sep 29Oct 12, 2026 — seafloor 26 m (measured), deepest dive 23 m (modelled)Oct 12Oct 16, 2026 — seafloor 1,279 m (measured), deepest dive 40 m (modelled)Oct 16

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

Dives

88 m
Deepest dive
3:31
Longest dive
148
Dives
22 m
Avg dive depth
11
Sightings
151
Days first → last

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Dive profile

modelled
05010088 mstartdive sequence (illustrative)

Depth shaped by the seafloor limit here (254 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 31, 2026

measured
Seafloor depth
254 m
Sea-surface temperature
16.8°C
Distance from shore
4.0 km

Across the residency · 11 sightings

measured
Seafloor depth
26 m – 1,279 m
Sea-surface temperature
11.4°C – 18.9°C
Distance from shore
2.0 km – 18.0 km

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

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Source records

This activity is assembled from 11 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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