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Monterey Bay

Direwolf – Residency

51st sighting in Monterey Bay
Fluke of Direwolf
Direwolf Confirmed in the catalog @7512
Jul 5 – Nov 15, 2025 · Monterey Bay

Monterey Bay · Jul – Nov 2025

114 m
Deepest dive
4:03
Longest dive
136
Dives
Sightings
12
Days between first and last sighting
133

Dive stats modelled within real depth limits — not measured

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SightingSeafloorSea tempDeepest dive (modelled)
Jul 5, 202512 m13.7°C10 m
Jul 7, 202512 m14.2°C11 m
Jul 15, 202551 m15.2°C20 m
Sep 9, 202515 m16.9°C13 m
Sep 10, 20256 m16.9°C5 m
Sep 17, 20257 m17.9°C6 m
Sep 21, 202514 m17.6°C13 m
Sep 26, 202514 m17.4°C12 m
Sep 28, 20255 m17.3°C4 m
Oct 16, 20257 m15.8°C5 m
Oct 20, 202523 m15.8°C19 m
Nov 15, 2025287 m14.3°C114 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 5, 2025 — seafloor 12 m (measured), deepest dive 10 m (modelled)Jul 5Jul 7, 2025 — seafloor 12 m (measured), deepest dive 11 m (modelled)Jul 7Jul 15, 2025 — seafloor 51 m (measured), deepest dive 20 m (modelled)Jul 15Sep 9, 2025 — seafloor 15 m (measured), deepest dive 13 m (modelled)Sep 9Sep 10, 2025 — seafloor 6 m (measured), deepest dive 5 m (modelled)Sep 10Sep 17, 2025 — seafloor 7 m (measured), deepest dive 6 m (modelled)Sep 17Sep 21, 2025 — seafloor 14 m (measured), deepest dive 13 m (modelled)Sep 21Sep 26, 2025 — seafloor 14 m (measured), deepest dive 12 m (modelled)Sep 26Sep 28, 2025 — seafloor 5 m (measured), deepest dive 4 m (modelled)Sep 28Oct 16, 2025 — seafloor 7 m (measured), deepest dive 5 m (modelled)Oct 16Oct 20, 2025 — seafloor 23 m (measured), deepest dive 19 m (modelled)Oct 20Nov 15, 2025 — seafloor 287 m (measured), deepest dive 114 m (modelled)Nov 15

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

Dives

114 m
Deepest dive
4:03
Longest dive
136
Dives
8 m
Avg dive depth
12
Sightings
133
Days first → last

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Dive profile

modelled
075150114 mstartdive sequence (illustrative)

Depth shaped by the seafloor limit here (287 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 · Nov 15, 2025

measured
Seafloor depth
287 m
Sea-surface temperature
14.3°C
Distance from shore
8.0 km

Across the residency · 12 sightings

measured
Seafloor depth
5 m – 287 m
Sea-surface temperature
13.7°C – 17.9°C
Distance from shore
1.0 km – 9.0 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.

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