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Santa Barbara Channel

Pepper's Mom – Residency

5th sighting in Santa Barbara Channel
Fluke of Pepper's Mom
Pepper's Mom Confirmed in the catalog @764
May 27 – Aug 10, 2010 · Santa Barbara Channel

Santa Barbara Channel · May – Aug 2010

175 m
Deepest dive
6:27
Longest dive
35
Dives
Sightings
3
Days between first and last sighting
75

Dive stats modelled within real depth limits — not measured

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SightingSeafloorSea tempDeepest dive (modelled)
May 27, 2010323 m12.0°C40 m
May 30, 2010363 m12.7°C161 m
Aug 10, 2010463 m14.9°C175 m

Seafloor and sea temperature measured · ✳ dives modelled

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Deepest dive against the seafloor, per sighting

Seafloor · measured Deepest dive · modelled
May 27, 2010 — seafloor 323 m (measured), deepest dive 40 m (modelled)May 27May 30, 2010 — seafloor 363 m (measured), deepest dive 161 m (modelled)May 30Aug 10, 2010 — seafloor 463 m (measured), deepest dive 175 m (modelled)Aug 10

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

Dives

175 m
Deepest dive
6:27
Longest dive
35
Dives
37 m
Avg dive depth
3
Sightings
75
Days first → last

Dive metrics are modelled within real depth limits — not measured

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Dive profile

modelled
0100200175 mstartdive sequence (illustrative)

Depth shaped by the seafloor limit here (463 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 · Aug 10, 2010

measured
Seafloor depth
463 m
Sea-surface temperature
14.9°C
Distance from shore
15.0 km

Across the residency · 3 sightings

measured
Seafloor depth
323 m – 463 m
Sea-surface temperature
12.0°C – 14.9°C
Distance from shore
9.0 km – 18.0 km

Sources: GEBCO seafloor grid · NASA JPL MUR sea temperature · PacIOOS coastline distance

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Source records

This activity is assembled from 3 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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