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Monterey Bay

Gulper – Residency

45th sighting in Monterey Bay
Fluke of Gulper
Gulper Confirmed in the catalog @7103
Jul 6 – 24, 2026 · Monterey Bay

Anchovy Season, Wide Open

Mouth first, always — Monterey's kitchen is cooking again this July.

61 m
Deepest dive
3:19
Longest dive
22
Dives
Sightings
3
Days between first and last sighting
18

Dive stats modelled within real depth limits — not measured

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SightingSeafloorSea tempDeepest dive (modelled)
Jul 6, 202629 m16.4°C23 m
Jul 18, 2026344 m15.2°C45 m
Jul 24, 2026291 m17.1°C61 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 6, 2026 — seafloor 29 m (measured), deepest dive 23 m (modelled)Jul 6Jul 18, 2026 — seafloor 344 m (measured), deepest dive 45 m (modelled)Jul 18Jul 24, 2026 — seafloor 291 m (measured), deepest dive 61 m (modelled)Jul 24

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

Dives

61 m
Deepest dive
3:19
Longest dive
22
Dives
21 m
Avg dive depth
3
Sightings
18
Days first → last

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Dive profile

modelled
05010061 mstartdive sequence (illustrative)

Depth shaped by the seafloor limit here (291 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 24, 2026

measured
Seafloor depth
291 m
Sea-surface temperature
17.1°C
Distance from shore
7.0 km

Across the residency · 3 sightings

measured
Seafloor depth
29 m – 344 m
Sea-surface temperature
15.2°C – 17.1°C
Distance from shore
2.0 km – 7.0 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.

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