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Monterey Bay

CRC-21518 – Residency

16th sighting in Monterey Bay
Fluke of CRC-21518
CRC-21518 Confirmed in the catalog @95755
Apr 13 – Jul 11, 2025 · Monterey Bay

Monterey Bay · Apr – Jul 2025

73 m
Deepest dive
3:21
Longest dive
98
Dives
Sightings
11
Days between first and last sighting
89

Dive stats modelled within real depth limits — not measured

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SightingSeafloorSea tempDeepest dive (modelled)
Apr 13, 202570 m—55 m
Apr 18, 202578 m—61 m
Apr 20, 202564 m—51 m
Apr 21, 202594 m—31 m
Apr 22, 202562 m—55 m
Apr 25, 202570 m—50 m
May 21, 202553 m—30 m
May 26, 202582 m—60 m
May 29, 2025293 m—73 m
Jul 9, 2025-24 m——
Jul 11, 202510 m—9 m

Seafloor and sea temperature measured · ✳ dives modelled

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Deepest dive against the seafloor, per sighting

Seafloor · measured Deepest dive · modelled
Apr 13, 2025 — seafloor 70 m (measured), deepest dive 55 m (modelled)Apr 13Apr 18, 2025 — seafloor 78 m (measured), deepest dive 61 m (modelled)Apr 18Apr 20, 2025 — seafloor 64 m (measured), deepest dive 51 m (modelled)Apr 20Apr 21, 2025 — seafloor 94 m (measured), deepest dive 31 m (modelled)Apr 21Apr 22, 2025 — seafloor 62 m (measured), deepest dive 55 m (modelled)Apr 22Apr 25, 2025 — seafloor 70 m (measured), deepest dive 50 m (modelled)Apr 25May 21, 2025 — seafloor 53 m (measured), deepest dive 30 m (modelled)May 21May 26, 2025 — seafloor 82 m (measured), deepest dive 60 m (modelled)May 26May 29, 2025 — seafloor 293 m (measured), deepest dive 73 m (modelled)May 29Jul 9, 2025 — seafloor -24 m (measured), deepest dive — (modelled)Jul 9Jul 11, 2025 — seafloor 10 m (measured), deepest dive 9 m (modelled)Jul 11

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

Dives

73 m
Deepest dive
3:21
Longest dive
98
Dives
20 m
Avg dive depth
11
Sightings
89
Days first → last

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Dive profile

modelled
05010073 mstartdive sequence (illustrative)

Depth shaped by the seafloor limit here (293 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 29, 2025

measured
Seafloor depth
293 m
Sea-surface temperature
—
Distance from shore
18.0 km

Across the residency · 11 sightings

measured
Seafloor depth
-24 m – 293 m
Sea-surface temperature
—
Distance from shore
2.0 km – 18.0 km

Sources: GEBCO seafloor grid · PacIOOS coastline distance

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Source records

This activity is assembled from 11 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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