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Monterey Bay

Little Dimple – Residency

84th sighting in Monterey Bay
Fluke of Little Dimple
Little Dimple Confirmed in the catalog @1384
Jul 3 – Oct 21, 2021 · Monterey Bay

Summer's Long Embrace

Spent months in my beloved bay, raising little ones where the krill runs thick.

168 m
Deepest dive
6:17
Longest dive
187
Dives
Sightings
13
Days between first and last sighting
110

Dive stats modelled within real depth limits — not measured

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SightingSeafloorSea tempDeepest dive (modelled)
Jul 3, 2021506 m15.6°C50 m
Jul 19, 2021109 m14.7°C47 m
Jul 20, 202172 m15.0°C59 m
Jul 21, 202166 m15.0°C49 m
Aug 11, 202181 m15.9°C61 m
Aug 19, 2021349 m16.2°C101 m
Sep 2, 202187 m16.7°C44 m
Sep 5, 2021567 m16.5°C44 m
Sep 30, 202142 m15.9°C26 m
Oct 3, 202185 m15.9°C63 m
Oct 7, 2021233 m14.9°C168 m
Oct 16, 202155 m13.9°C39 m
Oct 21, 202136 m13.7°C32 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 3, 2021 — seafloor 506 m (measured), deepest dive 50 m (modelled)Jul 3Jul 19, 2021 — seafloor 109 m (measured), deepest dive 47 m (modelled)Jul 20, 2021 — seafloor 72 m (measured), deepest dive 59 m (modelled)Jul 21, 2021 — seafloor 66 m (measured), deepest dive 49 m (modelled)Jul 21Aug 11, 2021 — seafloor 81 m (measured), deepest dive 61 m (modelled)Aug 19, 2021 — seafloor 349 m (measured), deepest dive 101 m (modelled)Sep 2, 2021 — seafloor 87 m (measured), deepest dive 44 m (modelled)Sep 2Sep 5, 2021 — seafloor 567 m (measured), deepest dive 44 m (modelled)Sep 30, 2021 — seafloor 42 m (measured), deepest dive 26 m (modelled)Oct 3, 2021 — seafloor 85 m (measured), deepest dive 63 m (modelled)Oct 3Oct 7, 2021 — seafloor 233 m (measured), deepest dive 168 m (modelled)Oct 16, 2021 — seafloor 55 m (measured), deepest dive 39 m (modelled)Oct 21, 2021 — seafloor 36 m (measured), deepest dive 32 m (modelled)Oct 21

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

Dives

168 m
Deepest dive
6:17
Longest dive
187
Dives
23 m
Avg dive depth
13
Sightings
110
Days first → last

Dive metrics are modelled within real depth limits — not measured

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Dive profile

modelled
0100200168 mstartdive sequence (illustrative)

Depth shaped by the seafloor limit here (233 m) and the published dive-behaviour distribution. Modelled, not measured.

Deep Effort Score

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Place

Where this happened · Oct 7, 2021

measured
Seafloor depth
233 m
Sea-surface temperature
14.9°C
Distance from shore
11.0 km

Across the residency · 13 sightings

measured
Seafloor depth
36 m – 567 m
Sea-surface temperature
13.7°C – 16.7°C
Distance from shore
1.0 km – 16.0 km

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

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Source records

This activity is assembled from 13 catalogued encounters on Happywhale.

Sighting records from Happywhale, published as occurrence data via GBIF. Individual records are licensed CC0 1.0, CC BY 4.0 or CC BY-NC 4.0, depending on the contributor.

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