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Monterey Bay

Pepper's Mom – Residency

94th sighting in Monterey Bay
Fluke of Pepper's Mom
Pepper's Mom Confirmed in the catalog @764
Mar 27 – Sep 3, 2026 · Monterey Bay

Spring Sanctuary

Another month spent in these familiar waters, where the krill runs thick and my calf grows strong.

114 m
Deepest dive
3:39
Longest dive
148
Dives
Sightings
14
Days between first and last sighting
159

Dive stats modelled within real depth limits — not measured

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SightingSeafloorSea tempDeepest dive (modelled)
Mar 27, 2026107 m12.9°C73 m
Mar 28, 202689 m13.3°C50 m
Mar 30, 2026431 m13.7°C82 m
Apr 23, 2026115 m13.7°C19 m
Apr 23, 2026204 m13.7°C57 m
Apr 24, 2026507 m13.7°C47 m
Apr 25, 2026300 m14.0°C86 m
May 15, 2026153 m11.6°C62 m
Jul 2, 2026270 m15.6°C114 m
Jul 4, 2026567 m15.9°C26 m
Jul 4, 202681 m16.0°C24 m
Aug 31, 2026567 m15.5°C39 m
Sep 2, 2026100 m15.3°C35 m
Sep 3, 202675 m15.3°C46 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, 2026 — seafloor 107 m (measured), deepest dive 73 m (modelled)Mar 27Mar 28, 2026 — seafloor 89 m (measured), deepest dive 50 m (modelled)Mar 30, 2026 — seafloor 431 m (measured), deepest dive 82 m (modelled)Apr 23, 2026 — seafloor 115 m (measured), deepest dive 19 m (modelled)Apr 23Apr 23, 2026 — seafloor 204 m (measured), deepest dive 57 m (modelled)Apr 24, 2026 — seafloor 507 m (measured), deepest dive 47 m (modelled)Apr 25, 2026 — seafloor 300 m (measured), deepest dive 86 m (modelled)Apr 25May 15, 2026 — seafloor 153 m (measured), deepest dive 62 m (modelled)Jul 2, 2026 — seafloor 270 m (measured), deepest dive 114 m (modelled)Jul 4, 2026 — seafloor 567 m (measured), deepest dive 26 m (modelled)Jul 4Jul 4, 2026 — seafloor 81 m (measured), deepest dive 24 m (modelled)Aug 31, 2026 — seafloor 567 m (measured), deepest dive 39 m (modelled)Sep 2, 2026 — seafloor 100 m (measured), deepest dive 35 m (modelled)Sep 2Sep 3, 2026 — seafloor 75 m (measured), deepest dive 46 m (modelled)

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

Dives

114 m
Deepest dive
3:39
Longest dive
148
Dives
21 m
Avg dive depth
14
Sightings
159
Days first → last

Dive metrics are modelled within real depth limits — not measured

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Dive profile

modelled
075150114 mstartdive sequence (illustrative)

Depth shaped by the seafloor limit here (270 m) and the published dive-behaviour distribution. Modelled, not measured.

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Depth, duration and recovery resolved into a single number for this session.

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Place

Where this happened · Jul 2, 2026

measured
Seafloor depth
270 m
Sea-surface temperature
15.6°C
Distance from shore
10.0 km

Across the residency · 14 sightings

measured
Seafloor depth
75 m – 567 m
Sea-surface temperature
11.6°C – 16.0°C
Distance from shore
1.0 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 14 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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