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Monterey Bay

CRC-21467 – Residency

11th sighting in Monterey Bay
Fluke of CRC-21467
CRC-21467 Confirmed in the catalog @94555
Aug 30 – Sep 5, 2026 · Monterey Bay

Home Shelf, Full Feed

Late summer feed pulled me into the bay yet again — every fluke shot proof this water knows me.

79 m
Deepest dive
2:36
Longest dive
43
Dives
Sightings
4
Days between first and last sighting
6

Dive stats modelled within real depth limits — not measured

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SightingSeafloorSea tempDeepest dive (modelled)
Aug 30, 202685 m15.2°C48 m
Sep 2, 202673 m15.3°C50 m
Sep 5, 2026251 m15.8°C79 m
Sep 5, 2026110 m16.0°C42 m

Seafloor and sea temperature measured · ✳ dives modelled

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Deepest dive against the seafloor, per sighting

Seafloor · measured Deepest dive · modelled
Aug 30, 2026 — seafloor 85 m (measured), deepest dive 48 m (modelled)Aug 30Sep 2, 2026 — seafloor 73 m (measured), deepest dive 50 m (modelled)Sep 2Sep 5, 2026 — seafloor 251 m (measured), deepest dive 79 m (modelled)Sep 5Sep 5, 2026 — seafloor 110 m (measured), deepest dive 42 m (modelled)Sep 5

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

Dives

79 m
Deepest dive
2:36
Longest dive
43
Dives
25 m
Avg dive depth
4
Sightings
6
Days first → last

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Dive profile

modelled
05010079 mstartdive sequence (illustrative)

Depth shaped by the seafloor limit here (251 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 5, 2026

measured
Seafloor depth
251 m
Sea-surface temperature
15.8°C
Distance from shore
4.0 km

Across the residency · 4 sightings

measured
Seafloor depth
73 m – 251 m
Sea-surface temperature
15.2°C – 16.0°C
Distance from shore
3.0 km – 6.0 km

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

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Source records

This activity is assembled from 4 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.

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