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Monterey Bay

CRC-20314 – Residency

55th sighting in Monterey Bay
Fluke of CRC-20314
CRC-20314 Confirmed in the catalog @91801
Sep 23 – 29, 2026 · Monterey Bay

Autumn on the Shelf Edge

Cold green water, good company, bait worth diving for.

93 m
Deepest dive
3:07
Longest dive
77
Dives
Sightings
6
Days between first and last sighting
6

Dive stats modelled within real depth limits — not measured

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SightingSeafloorSea tempDeepest dive (modelled)
Sep 23, 2026124 m17.0°C19 m
Sep 25, 202691 m16.6°C32 m
Sep 26, 2026281 m16.6°C54 m
Sep 27, 2026377 m16.5°C56 m
Sep 28, 2026148 m16.7°C93 m
Sep 29, 2026152 m16.7°C87 m

Seafloor and sea temperature measured · ✳ dives modelled

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Deepest dive against the seafloor, per sighting

Seafloor · measured Deepest dive · modelled
Sep 23, 2026 — seafloor 124 m (measured), deepest dive 19 m (modelled)Sep 23Sep 25, 2026 — seafloor 91 m (measured), deepest dive 32 m (modelled)Sep 25Sep 26, 2026 — seafloor 281 m (measured), deepest dive 54 m (modelled)Sep 26Sep 27, 2026 — seafloor 377 m (measured), deepest dive 56 m (modelled)Sep 27Sep 28, 2026 — seafloor 148 m (measured), deepest dive 93 m (modelled)Sep 28Sep 29, 2026 — seafloor 152 m (measured), deepest dive 87 m (modelled)Sep 29

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

Dives

93 m
Deepest dive
3:07
Longest dive
77
Dives
26 m
Avg dive depth
6
Sightings
6
Days first → last

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Dive profile

modelled
05010093 mstartdive sequence (illustrative)

Depth shaped by the seafloor limit here (148 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 28, 2026

measured
Seafloor depth
148 m
Sea-surface temperature
16.7°C
Distance from shore
2.0 km

Across the residency · 6 sightings

measured
Seafloor depth
91 m – 377 m
Sea-surface temperature
16.5°C – 17.0°C
Distance from shore
2.0 km – 7.0 km

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

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Source records

This activity is assembled from 6 catalogued encounters on Happywhale.

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