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Monterey Bay

Little Dimple – Residency

71st sighting in Monterey Bay
Fluke of Little Dimple
Little Dimple Confirmed in the catalog @1384
Jun 21 – Oct 16, 2020 · Monterey Bay

Monterey Bay · Jun – Oct 2020

276 m
Deepest dive
9:49
Longest dive
299
Dives
Sightings
31
Days between first and last sighting
117

Dive stats modelled within real depth limits — not measured

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SightingSeafloorSea tempDeepest dive (modelled)
Jun 21, 202055 m14.1°C24 m
Jun 22, 202035 m14.1°C32 m
Jun 23, 202072 m14.7°C55 m
Jun 24, 202072 m15.1°C28 m
Jun 30, 202073 m14.3°C62 m
Jul 2, 202094 m15.1°C37 m
Jul 10, 202063 m12.9°C57 m
Jul 11, 2020567 m12.4°C54 m
Jul 12, 202090 m13.5°C58 m
Jul 13, 202077 m13.7°C49 m
Jul 17, 2020105 m14.8°C84 m
Jul 18, 20201,074 m14.7°C33 m
Jul 20, 20201,265 m15.4°C55 m
Jul 21, 2020138 m15.5°C24 m
Jul 23, 2020347 m16.1°C25 m
Jul 25, 2020104 m16.5°C63 m
Jul 29, 2020567 m16.7°C86 m
Jul 30, 2020567 m16.1°C107 m

Seafloor and sea temperature measured · ✳ dives modelled ·

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Deepest dive against the seafloor, per sighting

Seafloor · measured Deepest dive · modelled
Jun 21, 2020 — seafloor 55 m (measured), deepest dive 24 m (modelled)Jun 21Jun 22, 2020 — seafloor 35 m (measured), deepest dive 32 m (modelled)Jun 23, 2020 — seafloor 72 m (measured), deepest dive 55 m (modelled)Jun 24, 2020 — seafloor 72 m (measured), deepest dive 28 m (modelled)Jun 30, 2020 — seafloor 73 m (measured), deepest dive 62 m (modelled)Jul 2, 2020 — seafloor 94 m (measured), deepest dive 37 m (modelled)Jul 10, 2020 — seafloor 63 m (measured), deepest dive 57 m (modelled)Jul 10Jul 11, 2020 — seafloor 567 m (measured), deepest dive 54 m (modelled)Jul 12, 2020 — seafloor 90 m (measured), deepest dive 58 m (modelled)Jul 13, 2020 — seafloor 77 m (measured), deepest dive 49 m (modelled)Jul 17, 2020 — seafloor 105 m (measured), deepest dive 84 m (modelled)Jul 18, 2020 — seafloor 1,074 m (measured), deepest dive 33 m (modelled)Jul 20, 2020 — seafloor 1,265 m (measured), deepest dive 55 m (modelled)Jul 20Jul 21, 2020 — seafloor 138 m (measured), deepest dive 24 m (modelled)Jul 23, 2020 — seafloor 347 m (measured), deepest dive 25 m (modelled)Jul 25, 2020 — seafloor 104 m (measured), deepest dive 63 m (modelled)Jul 29, 2020 — seafloor 567 m (measured), deepest dive 86 m (modelled)Jul 30, 2020 — seafloor 567 m (measured), deepest dive 107 m (modelled)Jul 31, 2020 — seafloor 84 m (measured), deepest dive 66 m (modelled)Jul 31Aug 3, 2020 — seafloor 123 m (measured), deepest dive 24 m (modelled)Aug 9, 2020 — seafloor 41 m (measured), deepest dive 35 m (modelled)Aug 10, 2020 — seafloor 27 m (measured), deepest dive 18 m (modelled)Aug 13, 2020 — seafloor 22 m (measured), deepest dive 20 m (modelled)Sep 1, 2020 — seafloor 81 m (measured), deepest dive 68 m (modelled)Sep 3, 2020 — seafloor 567 m (measured), deepest dive 74 m (modelled)Sep 3Sep 5, 2020 — seafloor 30 m (measured), deepest dive 26 m (modelled)Sep 6, 2020 — seafloor 27 m (measured), deepest dive 25 m (modelled)Sep 7, 2020 — seafloor 64 m (measured), deepest dive 32 m (modelled)Sep 18, 2020 — seafloor 57 m (measured), deepest dive 25 m (modelled)Sep 19, 2020 — seafloor 62 m (measured), deepest dive 40 m (modelled)Oct 16, 2020 — seafloor 396 m (measured), deepest dive 276 m (modelled)Oct 16

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

Dives

276 m
Deepest dive
9:49
Longest dive
299
Dives
22 m
Avg dive depth
31
Sightings
117
Days first → last

Dive metrics are modelled within real depth limits — not measured

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Dive profile

modelled
0150300276 mstartdive sequence (illustrative)

Depth shaped by the seafloor limit here (396 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 · Oct 16, 2020

measured
Seafloor depth
396 m
Sea-surface temperature
14.5°C
Distance from shore
8.0 km

Across the residency · 31 sightings

measured
Seafloor depth
22 m – 1,265 m
Sea-surface temperature
12.4°C – 17.3°C
Distance from shore
1.0 km – 18.0 km

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

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Source records

This activity is assembled from 31 catalogued encounters on Happywhale.

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