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Monterey Bay

Little Dimple – Residency

101st sighting in Monterey Bay
Fluke of Little Dimple
Little Dimple Confirmed in the catalog @1384
Jun 4 – Oct 14, 2022 · Monterey Bay

Summer Sanctuary

Another season in my beloved bay, where the krill swirls thick and memories run deep.

169 m
Deepest dive
8:28
Longest dive
154
Dives
Sightings
17
Days between first and last sighting
132

Dive stats modelled within real depth limits — not measured

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SightingSeafloorSea tempDeepest dive (modelled)
Jun 4, 202237 m12.9°C27 m
Jun 5, 202272 m13.6°C62 m
Jul 13, 202246 m14.8°C41 m
Jul 20, 202280 m15.6°C69 m
Jul 25, 2022420 m15.0°C42 m
Jul 27, 202292 m13.8°C42 m
Jul 31, 2022567 m15.6°C77 m
Aug 5, 202254 m16.4°C36 m
Aug 18, 202272 m14.5°C66 m
Aug 25, 2022121 m14.2°C26 m
Aug 28, 2022707 m14.5°C62 m
Sep 25, 202285 m16.2°C49 m
Oct 6, 2022567 m16.8°C169 m
Oct 7, 2022567 m16.0°C53 m
Oct 8, 202281 m15.6°C66 m
Oct 12, 2022322 m15.5°C168 m
Oct 14, 2022279 m15.1°C50 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 4, 2022 — seafloor 37 m (measured), deepest dive 27 m (modelled)Jun 4Jun 5, 2022 — seafloor 72 m (measured), deepest dive 62 m (modelled)Jul 13, 2022 — seafloor 46 m (measured), deepest dive 41 m (modelled)Jul 20, 2022 — seafloor 80 m (measured), deepest dive 69 m (modelled)Jul 20Jul 25, 2022 — seafloor 420 m (measured), deepest dive 42 m (modelled)Jul 27, 2022 — seafloor 92 m (measured), deepest dive 42 m (modelled)Jul 31, 2022 — seafloor 567 m (measured), deepest dive 77 m (modelled)Jul 31Aug 5, 2022 — seafloor 54 m (measured), deepest dive 36 m (modelled)Aug 18, 2022 — seafloor 72 m (measured), deepest dive 66 m (modelled)Aug 25, 2022 — seafloor 121 m (measured), deepest dive 26 m (modelled)Aug 25Aug 28, 2022 — seafloor 707 m (measured), deepest dive 62 m (modelled)Sep 25, 2022 — seafloor 85 m (measured), deepest dive 49 m (modelled)Oct 6, 2022 — seafloor 567 m (measured), deepest dive 169 m (modelled)Oct 6Oct 7, 2022 — seafloor 567 m (measured), deepest dive 53 m (modelled)Oct 8, 2022 — seafloor 81 m (measured), deepest dive 66 m (modelled)Oct 12, 2022 — seafloor 322 m (measured), deepest dive 168 m (modelled)Oct 12Oct 14, 2022 — seafloor 279 m (measured), deepest dive 50 m (modelled)

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

Dives

169 m
Deepest dive
8:28
Longest dive
154
Dives
24 m
Avg dive depth
17
Sightings
132
Days first → last

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Dive profile

modelled
0100200169 mstartdive sequence (illustrative)

Depth shaped by the seafloor limit here (567 m) and the published dive-behaviour distribution. Modelled, not measured.

Deep Effort Score

Deep

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Place

Where this happened · Oct 6, 2022

measured
Seafloor depth
567 m
Sea-surface temperature
16.8°C
Distance from shore
16.0 km

Across the residency · 17 sightings

measured
Seafloor depth
37 m – 707 m
Sea-surface temperature
12.9°C – 16.8°C
Distance from shore
2.0 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 17 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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