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Monterey Bay

CRC-19834 – Residency

14th sighting in Monterey Bay
Fluke of CRC-19834
CRC-19834 Confirmed in the catalog @73847
Jul 26 – Aug 9, 2026 · Monterey Bay

That Shelf Edge, Loyal

Five late summers now, and this cold green water still calls my name.

115 m
Deepest dive
4:38
Longest dive
199
Dives
Sightings
12
Days between first and last sighting
14

Dive stats modelled within real depth limits — not measured

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SightingSeafloorSea tempDeepest dive (modelled)
Jul 26, 202666 m16.9°C51 m
Jul 27, 202670 m17.0°C47 m
Jul 28, 2026140 m16.9°C34 m
Jul 29, 2026137 m16.7°C103 m
Jul 30, 202660 m16.6°C52 m
Jul 31, 202648 m16.8°C44 m
Aug 1, 2026201 m16.7°C82 m
Aug 2, 2026175 m16.8°C52 m
Aug 3, 2026143 m17.5°C115 m
Aug 5, 202693 m17.1°C77 m
Aug 6, 202671 m17.2°C48 m
Aug 9, 2026254 m17.2°C50 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 26, 2026 — seafloor 66 m (measured), deepest dive 51 m (modelled)Jul 26Jul 27, 2026 — seafloor 70 m (measured), deepest dive 47 m (modelled)Jul 27Jul 28, 2026 — seafloor 140 m (measured), deepest dive 34 m (modelled)Jul 28Jul 29, 2026 — seafloor 137 m (measured), deepest dive 103 m (modelled)Jul 29Jul 30, 2026 — seafloor 60 m (measured), deepest dive 52 m (modelled)Jul 30Jul 31, 2026 — seafloor 48 m (measured), deepest dive 44 m (modelled)Jul 31Aug 1, 2026 — seafloor 201 m (measured), deepest dive 82 m (modelled)Aug 1Aug 2, 2026 — seafloor 175 m (measured), deepest dive 52 m (modelled)Aug 2Aug 3, 2026 — seafloor 143 m (measured), deepest dive 115 m (modelled)Aug 3Aug 5, 2026 — seafloor 93 m (measured), deepest dive 77 m (modelled)Aug 5Aug 6, 2026 — seafloor 71 m (measured), deepest dive 48 m (modelled)Aug 6Aug 9, 2026 — seafloor 254 m (measured), deepest dive 50 m (modelled)Aug 9

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

Dives

115 m
Deepest dive
4:38
Longest dive
199
Dives
24 m
Avg dive depth
12
Sightings
14
Days first → last

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Dive profile

modelled
075150115 mstartdive sequence (illustrative)

Depth shaped by the seafloor limit here (143 m) and the published dive-behaviour distribution. Modelled, not measured.

Deep Effort Score

Deep

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Place

Where this happened · Aug 3, 2026

measured
Seafloor depth
143 m
Sea-surface temperature
17.5°C
Distance from shore
3.0 km

Across the residency · 12 sightings

measured
Seafloor depth
48 m – 254 m
Sea-surface temperature
16.6°C – 17.5°C
Distance from shore
2.0 km – 11.0 km

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

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Source records

This activity is assembled from 12 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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