Fluke of West Confirmed in the catalog

West @849

CRC-11819 was first sighted during the SPLASH project, a collaborative humpback whale study directed by Cascadia Research Collective, outside San Francisco Bay in 2004 then off Nicaragua in 2005. More recently this whale was found by the Whales of Guerrero Research Project, to whom he or she is known as HB_178. Formerly also known as HW-MN0500056.

Monterey Bay · North Pacific

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51 Following 14 Followers
37
Sightings
13
Years
0
Crossings
Last 12 months 3 sightings
  1. N 2025-11: 0 sightings
  2. D 2025-12: 0 sightings
  3. J 2026-01: 0 sightings
  4. F 2026-02: 0 sightings
  5. M 2026-03: 0 sightings
  6. A 2026-04: 2 sightings
  7. M 2026-05: 1 sighting
  8. J 2026-06: 0 sightings
  9. J 2026-07: 0 sightings
  10. A 2026-08: 0 sightings
  11. S 2026-09: 0 sightings
  12. O 2026-10: 0 sightings

Activities

10 in Risa

✳ Dive stats modelled, not measured

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