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Monterey Bay

CRC-21419 – Residency

53rd sighting in Monterey Bay
Fluke of CRC-21419
CRC-21419 Confirmed in the catalog @93975
May 18 – 25, 2026 · Monterey Bay

Green Water, Good Company

May's crowd showed up, and so did the bait balls.

96 m
Deepest dive
3:35
Longest dive
65
Dives
Sightings
5
Days between first and last sighting
7

Dive stats modelled within real depth limits — not measured

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SightingSeafloorSea tempDeepest dive (modelled)
May 18, 2026111 m11.4°C48 m
May 21, 202658 m11.6°C36 m
May 22, 2026107 m12.0°C95 m
May 23, 2026116 m12.4°C96 m
May 25, 202672 m13.1°C66 m

Seafloor and sea temperature measured · ✳ dives modelled

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Deepest dive against the seafloor, per sighting

Seafloor · measured Deepest dive · modelled
May 18, 2026 — seafloor 111 m (measured), deepest dive 48 m (modelled)May 18May 21, 2026 — seafloor 58 m (measured), deepest dive 36 m (modelled)May 21May 22, 2026 — seafloor 107 m (measured), deepest dive 95 m (modelled)May 22May 23, 2026 — seafloor 116 m (measured), deepest dive 96 m (modelled)May 23May 25, 2026 — seafloor 72 m (measured), deepest dive 66 m (modelled)May 25

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

Dives

96 m
Deepest dive
3:35
Longest dive
65
Dives
25 m
Avg dive depth
5
Sightings
7
Days first → last

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Dive profile

modelled
05010096 mstartdive sequence (illustrative)

Depth shaped by the seafloor limit here (116 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 · May 23, 2026

measured
Seafloor depth
116 m
Sea-surface temperature
12.4°C
Distance from shore
2.0 km

Across the residency · 5 sightings

measured
Seafloor depth
58 m – 116 m
Sea-surface temperature
11.4°C – 13.1°C
Distance from shore
2.0 km

Sources: GEBCO seafloor grid · NOAA OISST sea temperature · PacIOOS coastline distance

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Source records

This activity is assembled from 5 catalogued encounters on Happywhale.

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