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Monterey Bay

Little Dimple – Residency

200th sighting in Monterey Bay
Fluke of Little Dimple
Little Dimple Confirmed in the catalog @1384
Jul 4 – Sep 27, 2026 · Monterey Bay

Late Summer, My Bay

Bubble spirals, tail slaps, this whole bay just gets me.

219 m
Deepest dive
7:28
Longest dive
106
Dives
Sightings
6
Days between first and last sighting
85

Dive stats modelled within real depth limits — not measured

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SightingSeafloorSea tempDeepest dive (modelled)
Jul 4, 202646 m16.0°C33 m
Aug 4, 2026133 m17.3°C55 m
Aug 27, 2026327 m16.8°C219 m
Aug 29, 2026224 m15.6°C68 m
Sep 21, 2026247 m16.6°C188 m
Sep 27, 2026409 m16.4°C177 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 4, 2026 — seafloor 46 m (measured), deepest dive 33 m (modelled)Jul 4Aug 4, 2026 — seafloor 133 m (measured), deepest dive 55 m (modelled)Aug 4Aug 27, 2026 — seafloor 327 m (measured), deepest dive 219 m (modelled)Aug 27Aug 29, 2026 — seafloor 224 m (measured), deepest dive 68 m (modelled)Aug 29Sep 21, 2026 — seafloor 247 m (measured), deepest dive 188 m (modelled)Sep 21Sep 27, 2026 — seafloor 409 m (measured), deepest dive 177 m (modelled)Sep 27

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

Dives

219 m
Deepest dive
7:28
Longest dive
106
Dives
31 m
Avg dive depth
6
Sightings
85
Days first → last

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Dive profile

modelled
0125250219 mstartdive sequence (illustrative)

Depth shaped by the seafloor limit here (327 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 27, 2026

measured
Seafloor depth
327 m
Sea-surface temperature
16.8°C
Distance from shore
8.0 km

Across the residency · 6 sightings

measured
Seafloor depth
46 m – 409 m
Sea-surface temperature
15.6°C – 17.3°C
Distance from shore
4.0 km – 15.0 km

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

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Source records

This activity is assembled from 6 catalogued encounters on Happywhale.

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