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Monterey Bay

Pepper's Mom – Residency

52nd sighting in Monterey Bay
Fluke of Pepper's Mom
Pepper's Mom Confirmed in the catalog @764
Jun 11 – Nov 14, 2021 · Monterey Bay

Summer in the Bay

Five months of perfect feeding, the same rich waters calling me back again and again.

166 m
Deepest dive
6:13
Longest dive
57
Dives
Sightings
6
Days between first and last sighting
156

Dive stats modelled within real depth limits — not measured

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SightingSeafloorSea tempDeepest dive (modelled)
Jun 11, 2021567 m13.1°C166 m
Jul 16, 2021627 m14.2°C37 m
Jul 23, 2021567 m14.7°C104 m
Jul 24, 2021426 m14.8°C115 m
Sep 13, 202189 m16.6°C67 m
Nov 14, 2021674 m15.1°C60 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 11, 2021 — seafloor 567 m (measured), deepest dive 166 m (modelled)Jun 11Jul 16, 2021 — seafloor 627 m (measured), deepest dive 37 m (modelled)Jul 16Jul 23, 2021 — seafloor 567 m (measured), deepest dive 104 m (modelled)Jul 23Jul 24, 2021 — seafloor 426 m (measured), deepest dive 115 m (modelled)Jul 24Sep 13, 2021 — seafloor 89 m (measured), deepest dive 67 m (modelled)Sep 13Nov 14, 2021 — seafloor 674 m (measured), deepest dive 60 m (modelled)Nov 14

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

Dives

166 m
Deepest dive
6:13
Longest dive
57
Dives
32 m
Avg dive depth
6
Sightings
156
Days first → last

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Dive profile

modelled
0100200166 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 · Jun 11, 2021

measured
Seafloor depth
567 m
Sea-surface temperature
13.1°C
Distance from shore
16.0 km

Across the residency · 6 sightings

measured
Seafloor depth
89 m – 674 m
Sea-surface temperature
13.1°C – 16.6°C
Distance from shore
9.0 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 6 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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