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Monterey Bay

Pepper's Mom – Residency

27th sighting in Monterey Bay
Fluke of Pepper's Mom
Pepper's Mom Confirmed in the catalog @764
Mar 27 – Jul 27, 2018 · Monterey Bay

Monterey Bay · Mar – Jul 2018

113 m
Deepest dive
5:20
Longest dive
65
Dives
Sightings
5
Days between first and last sighting
122

Dive stats modelled within real depth limits — not measured

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SightingSeafloorSea tempDeepest dive (modelled)
Mar 27, 201892 m12.8°C82 m
Jun 24, 2018571 m13.2°C62 m
Jul 15, 2018306 m14.9°C113 m
Jul 26, 2018154 m15.6°C51 m
Jul 27, 201865 m15.5°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
Mar 27, 2018 — seafloor 92 m (measured), deepest dive 82 m (modelled)Mar 27Jun 24, 2018 — seafloor 571 m (measured), deepest dive 62 m (modelled)Jun 24Jul 15, 2018 — seafloor 306 m (measured), deepest dive 113 m (modelled)Jul 15Jul 26, 2018 — seafloor 154 m (measured), deepest dive 51 m (modelled)Jul 26Jul 27, 2018 — seafloor 65 m (measured), deepest dive 49 m (modelled)Jul 27

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

Dives

113 m
Deepest dive
5:20
Longest dive
65
Dives
26 m
Avg dive depth
5
Sightings
122
Days first → last

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Dive profile

modelled
075150113 mstartdive sequence (illustrative)

Depth shaped by the seafloor limit here (306 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 · Jul 15, 2018

measured
Seafloor depth
306 m
Sea-surface temperature
14.9°C
Distance from shore
12.0 km

Across the residency · 5 sightings

measured
Seafloor depth
65 m – 571 m
Sea-surface temperature
12.8°C – 15.6°C
Distance from shore
4.0 km – 12.0 km

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

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Source records

This activity is assembled from 5 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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