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Monterey Bay

Pepper's Mom – Residency

46th sighting in Monterey Bay
Fluke of Pepper's Mom
Pepper's Mom Confirmed in the catalog @764
Jul 2 – Oct 31, 2020 · Monterey Bay

Monterey Bay · Jul – Oct 2020

133 m
Deepest dive
4:35
Longest dive
98
Dives
Sightings
7
Days between first and last sighting
121

Dive stats modelled within real depth limits — not measured

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SightingSeafloorSea tempDeepest dive (modelled)
Jul 2, 202073 m15.1°C52 m
Jul 3, 202093 m15.3°C74 m
Jul 14, 2020567 m14.0°C50 m
Jul 25, 2020119 m16.6°C62 m
Sep 12, 2020235 m15.5°C133 m
Oct 31, 2020504 m15.4°C48 m
Oct 31, 2020491 m15.4°C95 m

Seafloor and sea temperature measured · ✳ dives modelled

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Deepest dive against the seafloor, per sighting

Seafloor · measured Deepest dive · modelled
Jul 2, 2020 — seafloor 73 m (measured), deepest dive 52 m (modelled)Jul 2Jul 3, 2020 — seafloor 93 m (measured), deepest dive 74 m (modelled)Jul 3Jul 14, 2020 — seafloor 567 m (measured), deepest dive 50 m (modelled)Jul 14Jul 25, 2020 — seafloor 119 m (measured), deepest dive 62 m (modelled)Jul 25Sep 12, 2020 — seafloor 235 m (measured), deepest dive 133 m (modelled)Sep 12Oct 31, 2020 — seafloor 504 m (measured), deepest dive 48 m (modelled)Oct 31Oct 31, 2020 — seafloor 491 m (measured), deepest dive 95 m (modelled)Oct 31

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

Dives

133 m
Deepest dive
4:35
Longest dive
98
Dives
28 m
Avg dive depth
7
Sightings
121
Days first → last

Dive metrics are modelled within real depth limits — not measured

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Dive profile

modelled
075150133 mstartdive sequence (illustrative)

Depth shaped by the seafloor limit here (235 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 12, 2020

measured
Seafloor depth
235 m
Sea-surface temperature
15.5°C
Distance from shore
14.0 km

Across the residency · 7 sightings

measured
Seafloor depth
73 m – 567 m
Sea-surface temperature
14.0°C – 16.6°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 7 catalogued encounters on Happywhale.

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