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Monterey Bay

Finley – Residency

23rd sighting in Monterey Bay
Fluke of Finley
Finley Confirmed in the catalog @94301
Jul 31 – Oct 18, 2026 · Monterey Bay

Monterey, thick with bait

Cold water, thick bait, cameras clicking while I breathe easy.

215 m
Deepest dive
8:30
Longest dive
193
Dives
Sightings
15
Days between first and last sighting
79
Deepest dive on record
215 m · this residency

Dive stats modelled within real depth limits — not measured

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SightingSeafloorSea tempDeepest dive (modelled)
Jul 31, 202695 m16.8°C73 m
Aug 1, 2026121 m16.7°C76 m
Sep 21, 2026198 m16.7°C65 m
Sep 21, 2026247 m16.6°C139 m
Sep 22, 2026255 m17.1°C87 m
Sep 25, 2026567 m16.5°C215 m
Sep 25, 2026143 m16.7°C34 m
Sep 26, 2026202 m16.6°C146 m
Sep 27, 2026243 m16.6°C51 m
Sep 28, 202661 m16.7°C54 m
Oct 1, 2026567 m17.0°C77 m
Oct 4, 2026567 m17.9°C58 m
Oct 6, 2026567 m17.9°C205 m
Oct 7, 2026388 m18.3°C138 m
Oct 18, 2026254 m19.0°C36 m

Seafloor and sea temperature measured · ✳ dives modelled

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Deepest dive against the seafloor, per sighting

Seafloor · measured Deepest dive · modelled
Jul 31, 2026 — seafloor 95 m (measured), deepest dive 73 m (modelled)Jul 31Aug 1, 2026 — seafloor 121 m (measured), deepest dive 76 m (modelled)Sep 21, 2026 — seafloor 198 m (measured), deepest dive 65 m (modelled)Sep 21, 2026 — seafloor 247 m (measured), deepest dive 139 m (modelled)Sep 21Sep 22, 2026 — seafloor 255 m (measured), deepest dive 87 m (modelled)Sep 25, 2026 — seafloor 567 m (measured), deepest dive 215 m (modelled)Sep 25, 2026 — seafloor 143 m (measured), deepest dive 34 m (modelled)Sep 25Sep 26, 2026 — seafloor 202 m (measured), deepest dive 146 m (modelled)Sep 27, 2026 — seafloor 243 m (measured), deepest dive 51 m (modelled)Sep 28, 2026 — seafloor 61 m (measured), deepest dive 54 m (modelled)Sep 28Oct 1, 2026 — seafloor 567 m (measured), deepest dive 77 m (modelled)Oct 4, 2026 — seafloor 567 m (measured), deepest dive 58 m (modelled)Oct 6, 2026 — seafloor 567 m (measured), deepest dive 205 m (modelled)Oct 6Oct 7, 2026 — seafloor 388 m (measured), deepest dive 138 m (modelled)Oct 18, 2026 — seafloor 254 m (measured), deepest dive 36 m (modelled)

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

Dives

215 m
Deepest dive
8:30
Longest dive
193
Dives
29 m
Avg dive depth
15
Sightings
79
Days first → last

Dive metrics are modelled within real depth limits — not measured

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Dive profile

modelled
0125250215 mstartdive sequence (illustrative)

Depth shaped by the seafloor limit here (567 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 25, 2026

measured
Seafloor depth
567 m
Sea-surface temperature
16.5°C
Distance from shore
16.0 km

Across the residency · 15 sightings

measured
Seafloor depth
61 m – 567 m
Sea-surface temperature
16.5°C – 19.0°C
Distance from shore
2.0 km – 16.0 km

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

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Source records

This activity is assembled from 15 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).

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