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Monterey Bay

Little Dimple – Residency

126th sighting in Monterey Bay
Fluke of Little Dimple
Little Dimple Confirmed in the catalog @1384
Jun 16 – Oct 31, 2023 · Monterey Bay

Summer Anchorage

Another season settled deep in the bay's embrace, my newest calf learning these familiar currents.

281 m
Deepest dive
12:20
Longest dive
276
Dives
Sightings
25
Days between first and last sighting
137
Deepest dive on record
281 m · this residency

Dive stats modelled within real depth limits — not measured

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SightingSeafloorSea tempDeepest dive (modelled)
Jun 16, 202382 m15.2°C43 m
Jun 17, 202378 m15.5°C36 m
Jun 30, 202374 m13.9°C61 m
Jul 15, 202394 m14.3°C39 m
Jul 16, 2023108 m15.2°C86 m
Jul 21, 202390 m14.8°C27 m
Jul 25, 202396 m14.6°C88 m
Jul 26, 202382 m14.5°C68 m
Aug 12, 2023555 m14.9°C31 m
Aug 14, 2023337 m15.9°C281 m
Aug 20, 202347 m17.6°C38 m
Aug 21, 202374 m17.6°C44 m
Sep 1, 202349 m17.4°C42 m
Sep 11, 202384 m16.0°C60 m
Sep 16, 202382 m16.5°C19 m
Sep 18, 202367 m16.5°C61 m
Sep 25, 202386 m16.9°C43 m
Sep 26, 2023481 m17.1°C22 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 16, 2023 — seafloor 82 m (measured), deepest dive 43 m (modelled)Jun 16Jun 17, 2023 — seafloor 78 m (measured), deepest dive 36 m (modelled)Jun 30, 2023 — seafloor 74 m (measured), deepest dive 61 m (modelled)Jul 15, 2023 — seafloor 94 m (measured), deepest dive 39 m (modelled)Jul 16, 2023 — seafloor 108 m (measured), deepest dive 86 m (modelled)Jul 21, 2023 — seafloor 90 m (measured), deepest dive 27 m (modelled)Jul 21Jul 25, 2023 — seafloor 96 m (measured), deepest dive 88 m (modelled)Jul 26, 2023 — seafloor 82 m (measured), deepest dive 68 m (modelled)Aug 12, 2023 — seafloor 555 m (measured), deepest dive 31 m (modelled)Aug 14, 2023 — seafloor 337 m (measured), deepest dive 281 m (modelled)Aug 20, 2023 — seafloor 47 m (measured), deepest dive 38 m (modelled)Aug 20Aug 21, 2023 — seafloor 74 m (measured), deepest dive 44 m (modelled)Sep 1, 2023 — seafloor 49 m (measured), deepest dive 42 m (modelled)Sep 11, 2023 — seafloor 84 m (measured), deepest dive 60 m (modelled)Sep 16, 2023 — seafloor 82 m (measured), deepest dive 19 m (modelled)Sep 18, 2023 — seafloor 67 m (measured), deepest dive 61 m (modelled)Sep 18Sep 25, 2023 — seafloor 86 m (measured), deepest dive 43 m (modelled)Sep 26, 2023 — seafloor 481 m (measured), deepest dive 22 m (modelled)Sep 27, 2023 — seafloor 99 m (measured), deepest dive 18 m (modelled)Oct 5, 2023 — seafloor 83 m (measured), deepest dive 51 m (modelled)Oct 6, 2023 — seafloor 60 m (measured), deepest dive 24 m (modelled)Oct 6Oct 14, 2023 — seafloor 567 m (measured), deepest dive 123 m (modelled)Oct 20, 2023 — seafloor 78 m (measured), deepest dive 64 m (modelled)Oct 26, 2023 — seafloor 70 m (measured), deepest dive 35 m (modelled)Oct 31, 2023 — seafloor 567 m (measured), deepest dive 102 m (modelled)

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

Dives

281 m
Deepest dive
12:20
Longest dive
276
Dives
21 m
Avg dive depth
25
Sightings
137
Days first → last

Dive metrics are modelled within real depth limits — not measured

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Dive profile

modelled
0150300281 mstartdive sequence (illustrative)

Depth shaped by the seafloor limit here (337 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 14, 2023

measured
Seafloor depth
337 m
Sea-surface temperature
15.9°C
Distance from shore
6.0 km

Across the residency · 25 sightings

measured
Seafloor depth
47 m – 567 m
Sea-surface temperature
13.9°C – 17.6°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 25 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.

The photographs and fluke identifications behind every sighting are the work of the contributing observers — the citizen scientists, naturalists and operators who logged them, each named in the underlying GBIF occurrence record. Every activity links out to its source encounters on Happywhale. Basemaps © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL).

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