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Monterey Bay

CRC-15617 – Residency

21st sighting in Monterey Bay
Fluke of CRC-15617
CRC-15617 Confirmed in the catalog @952
May 31 – Aug 16, 2025 · Monterey Bay

Monterey Bay · May – Aug 2025

118 m
Deepest dive
4:30
Longest dive
78
Dives
Sightings
5
Days between first and last sighting
77

Dive stats modelled within real depth limits — not measured

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SightingSeafloorSea tempDeepest dive (modelled)
May 31, 202528 m13.9°C20 m
Jun 1, 202571 m14.2°C38 m
Jun 26, 202547 m13.9°C28 m
Aug 16, 2025305 m15.7°C118 m
Aug 16, 2025567 m15.6°C92 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 31, 2025 — seafloor 28 m (measured), deepest dive 20 m (modelled)May 31Jun 1, 2025 — seafloor 71 m (measured), deepest dive 38 m (modelled)Jun 1Jun 26, 2025 — seafloor 47 m (measured), deepest dive 28 m (modelled)Jun 26Aug 16, 2025 — seafloor 305 m (measured), deepest dive 118 m (modelled)Aug 16Aug 16, 2025 — seafloor 567 m (measured), deepest dive 92 m (modelled)Aug 16

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

Dives

118 m
Deepest dive
4:30
Longest dive
78
Dives
22 m
Avg dive depth
5
Sightings
77
Days first → last

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Dive profile

modelled
075150118 mstartdive sequence (illustrative)

Depth shaped by the seafloor limit here (305 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 · Aug 16, 2025

measured
Seafloor depth
305 m
Sea-surface temperature
15.7°C
Distance from shore
3.0 km

Across the residency · 5 sightings

measured
Seafloor depth
28 m – 567 m
Sea-surface temperature
13.9°C – 15.7°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 5 catalogued encounters on Happywhale.

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