Activity map — real sighting points on an OpenStreetMap basemap © OpenStreetMap contributors
Monterey Bay

CRC-15156 – Residency

57th sighting in Monterey Bay
Fluke of CRC-15156
CRC-15156 Confirmed in the catalog @830
Aug 22 – Sep 5, 2026 · Monterey Bay

Krill's In, I'm In

Late summer, the shelf's loaded, and I know exactly where to be.

101 m
Deepest dive
4:28
Longest dive
27
Dives
Sightings
2
Days between first and last sighting
14

Dive stats modelled within real depth limits — not measured

Get actual dive data with Risa Deep →
SightingSeafloorSea tempDeepest dive (modelled)
Aug 22, 202667 m16.4°C26 m
Sep 5, 2026131 m16.0°C101 m

Seafloor and sea temperature measured · ✳ dives modelled

Activity map — real sighting points on an OpenStreetMap basemap © OpenStreetMap contributors

Deepest dive against the seafloor, per sighting

Seafloor · measured Deepest dive · modelled
Aug 22, 2026 — seafloor 67 m (measured), deepest dive 26 m (modelled)Aug 22Sep 5, 2026 — seafloor 131 m (measured), deepest dive 101 m (modelled)Sep 5

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

Dives

101 m
Deepest dive
4:28
Longest dive
27
Dives
26 m
Avg dive depth
2
Sightings
14
Days first → last

Dive metrics are modelled within real depth limits — not measured

Get actual dive data with Risa Deep →

Dive profile

modelled
075150101 mstartdive sequence (illustrative)

Depth shaped by the seafloor limit here (131 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.

Unlock with Risa Deep

Place

Where this happened · Sep 5, 2026

measured
Seafloor depth
131 m
Sea-surface temperature
16.0°C
Distance from shore
5.0 km

Across the residency · 2 sightings

measured
Seafloor depth
67 m – 131 m
Sea-surface temperature
16.0°C – 16.4°C
Distance from shore
2.0 km – 5.0 km

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

Activity map — real sighting points on an OpenStreetMap basemap © OpenStreetMap contributors

Source records

This activity is assembled from 2 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).

Happywhale runs on donations: support Happywhale →

Breach is an independent project. It is not affiliated with, nor endorsed by, Happywhale or GBIF.