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Monterey Bay

Pepper's Mom – Residency

80th sighting in Monterey Bay
Fluke of Pepper's Mom
Pepper's Mom Confirmed in the catalog @764
Jul 5 – Oct 9, 2025 · Monterey Bay

Summer in the Bay

Found my rhythm here again, the familiar currents calling me back like an old song.

180 m
Deepest dive
6:43
Longest dive
104
Dives
Sightings
10
Days between first and last sighting
96

Dive stats modelled within real depth limits — not measured

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SightingSeafloorSea tempDeepest dive (modelled)
Jul 5, 202561 m13.5°C41 m
Jul 20, 2025423 m15.6°C97 m
Jul 20, 2025254 m15.9°C180 m
Jul 23, 20252,087 m16.5°C29 m
Jul 23, 202583 m16.2°C31 m
Jul 27, 2025109 m16.3°C96 m
Jul 27, 202596 m16.4°C76 m
Jul 27, 2025567 m16.1°C113 m
Aug 4, 202569 m15.0°C58 m
Oct 9, 2025218 m17.1°C66 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 5, 2025 — seafloor 61 m (measured), deepest dive 41 m (modelled)Jul 5Jul 20, 2025 — seafloor 423 m (measured), deepest dive 97 m (modelled)Jul 20Jul 20, 2025 — seafloor 254 m (measured), deepest dive 180 m (modelled)Jul 20Jul 23, 2025 — seafloor 2,087 m (measured), deepest dive 29 m (modelled)Jul 23Jul 23, 2025 — seafloor 83 m (measured), deepest dive 31 m (modelled)Jul 23Jul 27, 2025 — seafloor 109 m (measured), deepest dive 96 m (modelled)Jul 27Jul 27, 2025 — seafloor 96 m (measured), deepest dive 76 m (modelled)Jul 27Jul 27, 2025 — seafloor 567 m (measured), deepest dive 113 m (modelled)Jul 27Aug 4, 2025 — seafloor 69 m (measured), deepest dive 58 m (modelled)Aug 4Oct 9, 2025 — seafloor 218 m (measured), deepest dive 66 m (modelled)Oct 9

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

Dives

180 m
Deepest dive
6:43
Longest dive
104
Dives
30 m
Avg dive depth
10
Sightings
96
Days first → last

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Dive profile

modelled
0100200180 mstartdive sequence (illustrative)

Depth shaped by the seafloor limit here (254 m) and the published dive-behaviour distribution. Modelled, not measured.

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Place

Where this happened · Jul 20, 2025

measured
Seafloor depth
254 m
Sea-surface temperature
15.9°C
Distance from shore
4.0 km

Across the residency · 10 sightings

measured
Seafloor depth
61 m – 2,087 m
Sea-surface temperature
13.5°C – 17.1°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 10 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.

The photographs and fluke identifications behind every sighting are the work of the contributing observers — the citizen scientists, naturalists and operators who logged them, each named in the underlying GBIF occurrence record. Every activity links out to its source encounters on Happywhale. Basemaps © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL).

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