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Monterey Bay

Pepper's Mom – Residency

64th sighting in Monterey Bay
Fluke of Pepper's Mom
Pepper's Mom Confirmed in the catalog @764
Jun 13 – Aug 10, 2023 · Monterey Bay

Summer in the Bay

These familiar waters keep calling me back, rich with everything we need.

68 m
Deepest dive
2:16
Longest dive
63
Dives
Sightings
5
Days between first and last sighting
58

Dive stats modelled within real depth limits — not measured

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SightingSeafloorSea tempDeepest dive (modelled)
Jun 13, 202375 m15.1°C54 m
Jun 14, 202377 m15.0°C39 m
Jun 28, 2023153 m13.5°C58 m
Jun 28, 2023494 m13.5°C68 m
Aug 10, 202366 m14.2°C58 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 13, 2023 — seafloor 75 m (measured), deepest dive 54 m (modelled)Jun 13Jun 14, 2023 — seafloor 77 m (measured), deepest dive 39 m (modelled)Jun 14Jun 28, 2023 — seafloor 153 m (measured), deepest dive 58 m (modelled)Jun 28Jun 28, 2023 — seafloor 494 m (measured), deepest dive 68 m (modelled)Jun 28Aug 10, 2023 — seafloor 66 m (measured), deepest dive 58 m (modelled)Aug 10

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

Dives

68 m
Deepest dive
2:16
Longest dive
63
Dives
22 m
Avg dive depth
5
Sightings
58
Days first → last

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Dive profile

modelled
05010068 mstartdive sequence (illustrative)

Depth shaped by the seafloor limit here (494 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 28, 2023

measured
Seafloor depth
494 m
Sea-surface temperature
13.5°C
Distance from shore
8.0 km

Across the residency · 5 sightings

measured
Seafloor depth
66 m – 494 m
Sea-surface temperature
13.5°C – 15.1°C
Distance from shore
4.0 km – 11.0 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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