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Monterey Bay

CRC-12391 – Residency

49th sighting in Monterey Bay
Fluke of CRC-12391
CRC-12391 Confirmed in the catalog @7611
May 25 – Sep 15, 2026 · Monterey Bay

Canyon Rim, All Summer

Rolled through that green shelf so many times this stretch, lens never missed me.

139 m
Deepest dive
5:20
Longest dive
70
Dives
Sightings
7
Days between first and last sighting
113

Dive stats modelled within real depth limits — not measured

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SightingSeafloorSea tempDeepest dive (modelled)
May 25, 2026797 m13.3°C139 m
Jun 20, 20261,390 m16.7°C49 m
Jun 25, 202680 m16.7°C63 m
Jun 26, 202689 m16.5°C61 m
Jul 11, 202671 m14.5°C42 m
Sep 10, 2026164 m17.7°C60 m
Sep 15, 202631 m16.1°C28 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 25, 2026 — seafloor 797 m (measured), deepest dive 139 m (modelled)May 25Jun 20, 2026 — seafloor 1,390 m (measured), deepest dive 49 m (modelled)Jun 20Jun 25, 2026 — seafloor 80 m (measured), deepest dive 63 m (modelled)Jun 25Jun 26, 2026 — seafloor 89 m (measured), deepest dive 61 m (modelled)Jun 26Jul 11, 2026 — seafloor 71 m (measured), deepest dive 42 m (modelled)Jul 11Sep 10, 2026 — seafloor 164 m (measured), deepest dive 60 m (modelled)Sep 10Sep 15, 2026 — seafloor 31 m (measured), deepest dive 28 m (modelled)Sep 15

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

Dives

139 m
Deepest dive
5:20
Longest dive
70
Dives
22 m
Avg dive depth
7
Sightings
113
Days first → last

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Dive profile

modelled
075150139 mstartdive sequence (illustrative)

Depth shaped by the seafloor limit here (797 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 · May 25, 2026

measured
Seafloor depth
797 m
Sea-surface temperature
13.3°C
Distance from shore
7.0 km

Across the residency · 7 sightings

measured
Seafloor depth
31 m – 1,390 m
Sea-surface temperature
13.3°C – 17.7°C
Distance from shore
3.0 km – 28.0 km

Sources: GEBCO seafloor grid · NOAA OISST sea temperature · PacIOOS coastline distance

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Source records

This activity is assembled from 7 catalogued encounters on Happywhale.

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