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Monterey Bay

Pepper's Mom – Residency

22nd sighting in Monterey Bay
Fluke of Pepper's Mom
Pepper's Mom Confirmed in the catalog @764
May 7 – Nov 12, 2017 · Monterey Bay

Monterey Bay · May – Nov 2017

151 m
Deepest dive
5:54
Longest dive
48
Dives
Sightings
6
Days between first and last sighting
190

Dive stats modelled within real depth limits — not measured

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SightingSeafloorSea tempDeepest dive (modelled)
May 7, 201748 m10.3°C41 m
Jul 4, 2017424 m13.9°C64 m
Jul 12, 2017166 m13.1°C141 m
Sep 7, 2017567 m17.1°C151 m
Oct 15, 2017745 m13.5°C50 m
Nov 12, 201794 m15.0°C49 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 7, 2017 — seafloor 48 m (measured), deepest dive 41 m (modelled)May 7Jul 4, 2017 — seafloor 424 m (measured), deepest dive 64 m (modelled)Jul 4Jul 12, 2017 — seafloor 166 m (measured), deepest dive 141 m (modelled)Jul 12Sep 7, 2017 — seafloor 567 m (measured), deepest dive 151 m (modelled)Sep 7Oct 15, 2017 — seafloor 745 m (measured), deepest dive 50 m (modelled)Oct 15Nov 12, 2017 — seafloor 94 m (measured), deepest dive 49 m (modelled)Nov 12

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

Dives

151 m
Deepest dive
5:54
Longest dive
48
Dives
33 m
Avg dive depth
6
Sightings
190
Days first → last

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Dive profile

modelled
0100200151 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

Depth, duration and recovery resolved into a single number for this session.

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Place

Where this happened · Sep 7, 2017

measured
Seafloor depth
567 m
Sea-surface temperature
17.1°C
Distance from shore
16.0 km

Across the residency · 6 sightings

measured
Seafloor depth
48 m – 745 m
Sea-surface temperature
10.3°C – 17.1°C
Distance from shore
2.0 km – 37.0 km

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

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Source records

This activity is assembled from 6 catalogued encounters on Happywhale.

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