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Monterey Bay

Little Dimple – Residency

13th sighting in Monterey Bay
Fluke of Little Dimple
Little Dimple Confirmed in the catalog @1384
Aug 16 – Oct 17, 2018 · Monterey Bay

Monterey Bay · Aug – Oct 2018

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Deepest dive
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Longest dive
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Dives
Sightings
4
Days between first and last sighting
62

Dive stats modelled within real depth limits — not measured

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SightingSeafloorSea tempDeepest dive (modelled)
Aug 16, 2018716 m15.6°C—
Sep 3, 201874 m16.4°C—
Sep 5, 2018117 m15.9°C—
Oct 17, 201890 m16.5°C—

Seafloor and sea temperature measured · ✳ dives modelled

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Deepest dive against the seafloor, per sighting

Seafloor · measured Deepest dive · modelled
Aug 16, 2018 — seafloor 716 m (measured), deepest dive — (modelled)Aug 16Sep 3, 2018 — seafloor 74 m (measured), deepest dive — (modelled)Sep 3Sep 5, 2018 — seafloor 117 m (measured), deepest dive — (modelled)Sep 5Oct 17, 2018 — seafloor 90 m (measured), deepest dive — (modelled)Oct 17

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

Dives

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Deepest dive
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Longest dive
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Dives
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Avg dive depth
4
Sightings
62
Days first → last

Dive metrics are modelled within real depth limits — not measured

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Dive profile

modelled
02550startdive sequence (illustrative)

Modelled from the published dive-behaviour distribution. 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 · Oct 17, 2018

measured
Seafloor depth
90 m
Sea-surface temperature
16.5°C
Distance from shore
8.0 km

Across the residency · 4 sightings

measured
Seafloor depth
74 m – 716 m
Sea-surface temperature
15.6°C – 16.5°C
Distance from shore
4.0 km – 8.0 km

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

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Source records

This activity is assembled from 4 catalogued encounters on Happywhale.

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