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Monterey Bay

Pepper's Mom – Residency

15th sighting in Monterey Bay
Fluke of Pepper's Mom
Pepper's Mom Confirmed in the catalog @764
May 2 – Aug 10, 2015 · Monterey Bay

Monterey Bay · May – Aug 2015

217 m
Deepest dive
7:18
Longest dive
95
Dives
Sightings
8
Days between first and last sighting
100

Dive stats modelled within real depth limits — not measured

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SightingSeafloorSea tempDeepest dive (modelled)
May 2, 2015567 m12.0°C105 m
May 20, 2015254 m12.3°C217 m
Jun 27, 2015859 m14.0°C113 m
Jul 8, 2015567 m15.4°C93 m
Jul 30, 2015303 m16.2°C95 m
Jul 31, 201574 m16.4°C29 m
Aug 1, 201566 m17.5°C51 m
Aug 10, 2015158 m16.9°C102 m

Seafloor and sea temperature measured · ✳ dives modelled

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Deepest dive against the seafloor, per sighting

Seafloor · measured Deepest dive · modelled
May 2, 2015 — seafloor 567 m (measured), deepest dive 105 m (modelled)May 2May 20, 2015 — seafloor 254 m (measured), deepest dive 217 m (modelled)May 20Jun 27, 2015 — seafloor 859 m (measured), deepest dive 113 m (modelled)Jun 27Jul 8, 2015 — seafloor 567 m (measured), deepest dive 93 m (modelled)Jul 8Jul 30, 2015 — seafloor 303 m (measured), deepest dive 95 m (modelled)Jul 30Jul 31, 2015 — seafloor 74 m (measured), deepest dive 29 m (modelled)Jul 31Aug 1, 2015 — seafloor 66 m (measured), deepest dive 51 m (modelled)Aug 1Aug 10, 2015 — seafloor 158 m (measured), deepest dive 102 m (modelled)Aug 10

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

Dives

217 m
Deepest dive
7:18
Longest dive
95
Dives
28 m
Avg dive depth
8
Sightings
100
Days first → last

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Dive profile

modelled
0125250217 mstartdive sequence (illustrative)

Depth shaped by the seafloor limit here (254 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 · May 20, 2015

measured
Seafloor depth
254 m
Sea-surface temperature
12.3°C
Distance from shore
4.0 km

Across the residency · 8 sightings

measured
Seafloor depth
66 m – 859 m
Sea-surface temperature
12.0°C – 17.5°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 8 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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