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Monterey Bay

CRC-19542 – Residency

30th sighting in Monterey Bay
Fluke of CRC-19542
CRC-19542 Confirmed in the catalog @76665
Jul 13 – Sep 30, 2026 · Monterey Bay

Shelf Life, Bay Style

Late summer, same green shelf, and the feeding's still worth showing up for.

88 m
Deepest dive
3:50
Longest dive
106
Dives
Sightings
9
Days between first and last sighting
79

Dive stats modelled within real depth limits — not measured

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SightingSeafloorSea tempDeepest dive (modelled)
Jul 13, 202681 m16.8°C73 m
Sep 5, 2026110 m16.0°C81 m
Sep 10, 2026404 m17.7°C15 m
Sep 17, 2026107 m15.6°C67 m
Sep 22, 2026247 m—59 m
Sep 25, 2026121 m—88 m
Sep 27, 202674 m—51 m
Sep 28, 202689 m—38 m
Sep 30, 2026147 m—85 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 13, 2026 — seafloor 81 m (measured), deepest dive 73 m (modelled)Jul 13Sep 5, 2026 — seafloor 110 m (measured), deepest dive 81 m (modelled)Sep 5Sep 10, 2026 — seafloor 404 m (measured), deepest dive 15 m (modelled)Sep 10Sep 17, 2026 — seafloor 107 m (measured), deepest dive 67 m (modelled)Sep 17Sep 22, 2026 — seafloor 247 m (measured), deepest dive 59 m (modelled)Sep 22Sep 25, 2026 — seafloor 121 m (measured), deepest dive 88 m (modelled)Sep 25Sep 27, 2026 — seafloor 74 m (measured), deepest dive 51 m (modelled)Sep 27Sep 28, 2026 — seafloor 89 m (measured), deepest dive 38 m (modelled)Sep 28Sep 30, 2026 — seafloor 147 m (measured), deepest dive 85 m (modelled)Sep 30

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

Dives

88 m
Deepest dive
3:50
Longest dive
106
Dives
23 m
Avg dive depth
9
Sightings
79
Days first → last

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Dive profile

modelled
05010088 mstartdive sequence (illustrative)

Depth shaped by the seafloor limit here (121 m) and the published dive-behaviour distribution. Modelled, not measured.

Deep Effort Score

Deep

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Place

Where this happened · Sep 25, 2026

measured
Seafloor depth
121 m
Sea-surface temperature
—
Distance from shore
6.0 km

Across the residency · 9 sightings

measured
Seafloor depth
74 m – 404 m
Sea-surface temperature
15.6°C – 17.7°C
Distance from shore
2.0 km – 11.0 km

Sources: GEBCO seafloor grid · PacIOOS coastline distance

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Source records

This activity is assembled from 9 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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