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Monterey Bay

Jewel – Residency

69th sighting in Monterey Bay
Fluke of Jewel
Jewel Confirmed in the catalog @82246
Jun 24 – Oct 4, 2026 · Monterey Bay

Green Water, Good Company

Summer in the canyon, shoulders everywhere, exactly where I want to be.

161 m
Deepest dive
5:53
Longest dive
91
Dives
Sightings
11
Days between first and last sighting
102

Dive stats modelled within real depth limits — not measured

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SightingSeafloorSea tempDeepest dive (modelled)
Jun 24, 202628 m16.6°C18 m
Jun 25, 202688 m16.3°C30 m
Sep 15, 2026186 m16.5°C52 m
Sep 17, 2026107 m15.6°C39 m
Sep 18, 2026175 m15.7°C161 m
Sep 25, 202677 m16.5°C53 m
Sep 27, 2026254 m16.6°C78 m
Sep 27, 2026254 m16.6°C106 m
Sep 28, 2026126 m16.7°C48 m
Sep 30, 2026211 m16.6°C47 m
Oct 4, 2026124 m17.9°C44 m

Seafloor and sea temperature measured · ✳ dives modelled

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Deepest dive against the seafloor, per sighting

Seafloor · measured Deepest dive · modelled
Jun 24, 2026 — seafloor 28 m (measured), deepest dive 18 m (modelled)Jun 24Jun 25, 2026 — seafloor 88 m (measured), deepest dive 30 m (modelled)Jun 25Sep 15, 2026 — seafloor 186 m (measured), deepest dive 52 m (modelled)Sep 15Sep 17, 2026 — seafloor 107 m (measured), deepest dive 39 m (modelled)Sep 17Sep 18, 2026 — seafloor 175 m (measured), deepest dive 161 m (modelled)Sep 18Sep 25, 2026 — seafloor 77 m (measured), deepest dive 53 m (modelled)Sep 25Sep 27, 2026 — seafloor 254 m (measured), deepest dive 78 m (modelled)Sep 27Sep 27, 2026 — seafloor 254 m (measured), deepest dive 106 m (modelled)Sep 27Sep 28, 2026 — seafloor 126 m (measured), deepest dive 48 m (modelled)Sep 28Sep 30, 2026 — seafloor 211 m (measured), deepest dive 47 m (modelled)Sep 30Oct 4, 2026 — seafloor 124 m (measured), deepest dive 44 m (modelled)Oct 4

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

Dives

161 m
Deepest dive
5:53
Longest dive
91
Dives
25 m
Avg dive depth
11
Sightings
102
Days first → last

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Dive profile

modelled
0100200161 mstartdive sequence (illustrative)

Depth shaped by the seafloor limit here (175 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 18, 2026

measured
Seafloor depth
175 m
Sea-surface temperature
15.7°C
Distance from shore
8.0 km

Across the residency · 11 sightings

measured
Seafloor depth
28 m – 254 m
Sea-surface temperature
15.6°C – 17.9°C
Distance from shore
2.0 km – 11.0 km

Sources: GEBCO seafloor grid · NASA JPL MUR sea temperature · PacIOOS coastline distance

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Source records

This activity is assembled from 11 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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