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Monterey Bay

Nerd Girl – Residency

82nd sighting in Monterey Bay
Fluke of Nerd Girl
Nerd Girl Confirmed in the catalog @82314
Jun 8 – Sep 2, 2025 · Monterey Bay

Monterey Bay · Jun – Sep 2025

167 m
Deepest dive
5:39
Longest dive
89
Dives
Sightings
10
Days between first and last sighting
86

Dive stats modelled within real depth limits — not measured

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SightingSeafloorSea tempDeepest dive (modelled)
Jun 8, 202557 m15.3°C49 m
Jun 29, 2025466 m13.1°C94 m
Jul 26, 202536 m16.2°C24 m
Jul 28, 20251,089 m16.2°C64 m
Aug 19, 202564 m14.7°C30 m
Aug 25, 202579 m13.1°C61 m
Aug 26, 202583 m13.1°C43 m
Aug 26, 202593 m13.1°C84 m
Aug 27, 2025219 m15.3°C167 m
Sep 2, 202579 m17.3°C71 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 8, 2025 — seafloor 57 m (measured), deepest dive 49 m (modelled)Jun 8Jun 29, 2025 — seafloor 466 m (measured), deepest dive 94 m (modelled)Jun 29Jul 26, 2025 — seafloor 36 m (measured), deepest dive 24 m (modelled)Jul 26Jul 28, 2025 — seafloor 1,089 m (measured), deepest dive 64 m (modelled)Jul 28Aug 19, 2025 — seafloor 64 m (measured), deepest dive 30 m (modelled)Aug 19Aug 25, 2025 — seafloor 79 m (measured), deepest dive 61 m (modelled)Aug 25Aug 26, 2025 — seafloor 83 m (measured), deepest dive 43 m (modelled)Aug 26Aug 26, 2025 — seafloor 93 m (measured), deepest dive 84 m (modelled)Aug 26Aug 27, 2025 — seafloor 219 m (measured), deepest dive 167 m (modelled)Aug 27Sep 2, 2025 — seafloor 79 m (measured), deepest dive 71 m (modelled)Sep 2

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

Dives

167 m
Deepest dive
5:39
Longest dive
89
Dives
26 m
Avg dive depth
10
Sightings
86
Days first → last

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Dive profile

modelled
0100200167 mstartdive sequence (illustrative)

Depth shaped by the seafloor limit here (219 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 · Aug 27, 2025

measured
Seafloor depth
219 m
Sea-surface temperature
15.3°C
Distance from shore
5.0 km

Across the residency · 10 sightings

measured
Seafloor depth
36 m – 1,089 m
Sea-surface temperature
13.1°C – 17.3°C
Distance from shore
2.0 km – 12.0 km

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

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Source records

This activity is assembled from 10 catalogued encounters on Happywhale.

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