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Monterey Bay

CRC-12185 – Residency

11th sighting in Monterey Bay
Fluke of CRC-12185
CRC-12185 Confirmed in the catalog @993
Jul 8 – Aug 23, 2026 · Monterey Bay

Green Water, Good Company

Cold water's up, the feeding's on, and the crew's never short.

83 m
Deepest dive
3:38
Longest dive
40
Dives
Sightings
2
Days between first and last sighting
46

Dive stats modelled within real depth limits — not measured

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SightingSeafloorSea tempDeepest dive (modelled)
Jul 8, 202694 m16.1°C83 m
Aug 23, 202647 m17.2°C37 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 8, 2026 — seafloor 94 m (measured), deepest dive 83 m (modelled)Jul 8Aug 23, 2026 — seafloor 47 m (measured), deepest dive 37 m (modelled)Aug 23

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

Dives

83 m
Deepest dive
3:38
Longest dive
40
Dives
22 m
Avg dive depth
2
Sightings
46
Days first → last

Dive metrics are modelled within real depth limits — not measured

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Dive profile

modelled
05010083 mstartdive sequence (illustrative)

Depth shaped by the seafloor limit here (94 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 · Jul 8, 2026

measured
Seafloor depth
94 m
Sea-surface temperature
16.1°C
Distance from shore
4.0 km

Across the residency · 2 sightings

measured
Seafloor depth
47 m – 94 m
Sea-surface temperature
16.1°C – 17.2°C
Distance from shore
2.0 km – 4.0 km

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

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Source records

This activity is assembled from 2 catalogued encounters on Happywhale.

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