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Monterey Bay

Ghost Pepper – Residency

46th sighting in Monterey Bay
Fluke of Ghost Pepper
Ghost Pepper Confirmed in the catalog @82702
Jul 8 – 10, 2025 · Monterey Bay

Monterey Bay · Jul 2025

51 m
Deepest dive
2:12
Longest dive
43
Dives
Sightings
5
Days between first and last sighting
2

Dive stats modelled within real depth limits — not measured

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SightingSeafloorSea tempDeepest dive (modelled)
Jul 8, 202533 m13.6°C30 m
Jul 8, 202572 m13.6°C26 m
Jul 9, 202555 m13.5°C48 m
Jul 10, 202561 m13.3°C49 m
Jul 10, 202556 m13.3°C51 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 8, 2025 — seafloor 33 m (measured), deepest dive 30 m (modelled)Jul 8Jul 8, 2025 — seafloor 72 m (measured), deepest dive 26 m (modelled)Jul 8Jul 9, 2025 — seafloor 55 m (measured), deepest dive 48 m (modelled)Jul 9Jul 10, 2025 — seafloor 61 m (measured), deepest dive 49 m (modelled)Jul 10Jul 10, 2025 — seafloor 56 m (measured), deepest dive 51 m (modelled)Jul 10

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

Dives

51 m
Deepest dive
2:12
Longest dive
43
Dives
21 m
Avg dive depth
5
Sightings
2
Days first → last

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Dive profile

modelled
05010051 mstartdive sequence (illustrative)

Depth shaped by the seafloor limit here (56 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 · Jul 10, 2025

measured
Seafloor depth
56 m
Sea-surface temperature
13.3°C
Distance from shore
3.0 km

Across the residency · 5 sightings

measured
Seafloor depth
33 m – 72 m
Sea-surface temperature
13.3°C – 13.6°C
Distance from shore
1.0 km – 4.0 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.

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