Curve – Residency
31st sighting in Monterey Bay
Curve @994
Sep 7 – Oct 17, 2026 · Monterey Bay
Canyon Water, Right on Time
Autumn's here, the feed's up, and this bay knows my shadow.
253 m
Deepest dive
10:38
Longest dive
92
Dives
- Sightings
- 7
- Days between first and last sighting
- 40
- Deepest dive on record
- 253 m · this residency
Dive stats modelled within real depth limits — not measured
Get actual dive data with Risa Deep →| Sighting | Seafloor | Sea temp | Deepest dive (modelled) |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 7, 2026 | 254 m | 15.9°C | 141 m |
| Sep 8, 2026 | 514 m | 15.6°C | 44 m |
| Sep 9, 2026 | 567 m | 16.0°C | 50 m |
| Sep 14, 2026 | 177 m | 16.3°C | 69 m |
| Sep 21, 2026 | 199 m | 16.6°C | 77 m |
| Oct 5, 2026 | 283 m | 17.9°C | 253 m |
| Oct 17, 2026 | 86 m | 19.5°C | 57 m |
Seafloor and sea temperature measured · ✳ dives modelled
Deepest dive against the seafloor, per sighting
Seafloor · measured Deepest dive · modelledDepth runs down from the surface. The modelled dive never passes the measured seafloor at that sighting.
Dives
253 m
Deepest dive
10:38
Longest dive
92
Dives
29 m
Avg dive depth
7
Sightings
40
Days first → last
Dive metrics are modelled within real depth limits — not measured
Get actual dive data with Risa Deep →Dive profile
modelledDepth shaped by the seafloor limit here (283 m) and the published dive-behaviour distribution. Modelled, not measured.
Deep Effort Score
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Where this happened · Oct 5, 2026
measured- Seafloor depth
- 283 m
- Sea-surface temperature
- 17.9°C
- Distance from shore
- 5.0 km
Across the residency · 7 sightings
measured- Seafloor depth
- 86 m – 567 m
- Sea-surface temperature
- 15.6°C – 19.5°C
- Distance from shore
- 2.0 km – 16.0 km
Sources: GEBCO seafloor grid · NASA JPL MUR sea temperature · PacIOOS coastline distance
Source records
This activity is assembled from 7 catalogued encounters on Happywhale.