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Monterey Bay

Direwolf – Residency

59th sighting in Monterey Bay
Fluke of Direwolf
Direwolf Confirmed in the catalog @7512
May 6 – Sep 14, 2026 · Monterey Bay

Same Green Water, Again

Summer's here — back where the krill lean thick.

63 m
Deepest dive
2:44
Longest dive
156
Dives
Sightings
12
Days between first and last sighting
131

Dive stats modelled within real depth limits — not measured

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SightingSeafloorSea tempDeepest dive (modelled)
May 6, 2026112 m13.7°C59 m
May 12, 202632 m12.6°C28 m
May 21, 202637 m11.3°C24 m
Jun 26, 2026-11 m——
Jun 30, 202610 m16.1°C9 m
Jul 1, 202614 m15.0°C13 m
Jul 17, 2026254 m15.6°C33 m
Jul 18, 202667 m15.4°C58 m
Sep 2, 202673 m15.3°C45 m
Sep 2, 2026186 m15.4°C56 m
Sep 3, 202675 m15.3°C63 m
Sep 14, 202614 m15.9°C13 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 6, 2026 — seafloor 112 m (measured), deepest dive 59 m (modelled)May 6May 12, 2026 — seafloor 32 m (measured), deepest dive 28 m (modelled)May 12May 21, 2026 — seafloor 37 m (measured), deepest dive 24 m (modelled)May 21Jun 26, 2026 — seafloor -11 m (measured), deepest dive — (modelled)Jun 26Jun 30, 2026 — seafloor 10 m (measured), deepest dive 9 m (modelled)Jun 30Jul 1, 2026 — seafloor 14 m (measured), deepest dive 13 m (modelled)Jul 1Jul 17, 2026 — seafloor 254 m (measured), deepest dive 33 m (modelled)Jul 17Jul 18, 2026 — seafloor 67 m (measured), deepest dive 58 m (modelled)Jul 18Sep 2, 2026 — seafloor 73 m (measured), deepest dive 45 m (modelled)Sep 2Sep 2, 2026 — seafloor 186 m (measured), deepest dive 56 m (modelled)Sep 2Sep 3, 2026 — seafloor 75 m (measured), deepest dive 63 m (modelled)Sep 3Sep 14, 2026 — seafloor 14 m (measured), deepest dive 13 m (modelled)Sep 14

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

Dives

63 m
Deepest dive
2:44
Longest dive
156
Dives
18 m
Avg dive depth
12
Sightings
131
Days first → last

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Dive profile

modelled
05010063 mstartdive sequence (illustrative)

Depth shaped by the seafloor limit here (75 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 · Sep 3, 2026

measured
Seafloor depth
75 m
Sea-surface temperature
15.3°C
Distance from shore
7.0 km

Across the residency · 12 sightings

measured
Seafloor depth
-11 m – 254 m
Sea-surface temperature
11.3°C – 16.1°C
Distance from shore
1.0 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 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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