Vertigo – Residency
69th sighting in Monterey Bay
Vertigo @7623
May 25 – Oct 5, 2026 · Monterey Bay
Krill Season, Home Water
Whole summer in this bay, and the krill just kept coming.
134 m
Deepest dive
6:37
Longest dive
76
Dives
- Sightings
- 8
- Days between first and last sighting
- 132
Dive stats modelled within real depth limits — not measured
Get actual dive data with Risa Deep →| Sighting | Seafloor | Sea temp | Deepest dive (modelled) |
|---|---|---|---|
| May 25, 2026 | 95 m | 13.1°C | 66 m |
| Jun 24, 2026 | -13 m | 15.7°C | — |
| Aug 16, 2026 | 123 m | 16.6°C | 60 m |
| Sep 17, 2026 | 166 m | 15.6°C | 134 m |
| Sep 19, 2026 | 26 m | 16.4°C | 21 m |
| Sep 30, 2026 | 147 m | 16.6°C | 92 m |
| Oct 3, 2026 | 155 m | 18.0°C | 93 m |
| Oct 5, 2026 | 567 m | 17.9°C | 93 m |
Seafloor and sea temperature measured · ✳ dives modelled
Deepest dive against the seafloor, per sighting
Seafloor · measured Deepest dive · modelledDepth runs down from the surface. The modelled dive never passes the measured seafloor at that sighting.
Dives
134 m
Deepest dive
6:37
Longest dive
76
Dives
27 m
Avg dive depth
8
Sightings
132
Days first → last
Dive metrics are modelled within real depth limits — not measured
Get actual dive data with Risa Deep →Dive profile
modelledDepth shaped by the seafloor limit here (166 m) and the published dive-behaviour distribution. Modelled, not measured.
Deep Effort Score
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Where this happened · Sep 17, 2026
measured- Seafloor depth
- 166 m
- Sea-surface temperature
- 15.6°C
- Distance from shore
- 5.0 km
Across the residency · 8 sightings
measured- Seafloor depth
- -13 m – 567 m
- Sea-surface temperature
- 13.1°C – 18.0°C
- Distance from shore
- 2.0 km – 16.0 km
Sources: GEBCO seafloor grid · NASA JPL MUR sea temperature · PacIOOS coastline distance
Source records
This activity is assembled from 8 catalogued encounters on Happywhale.