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Monterey Bay

Little Dipper's Mom – Residency

12th sighting in Monterey Bay
Fluke of Little Dipper's Mom
Little Dipper's Mom Confirmed in the catalog @955
May 19 – Nov 9, 2018 · Monterey Bay

Monterey Bay · May – Nov 2018

118 m
Deepest dive
4:30
Longest dive
132
Dives
Sightings
9
Days between first and last sighting
174

Dive stats modelled within real depth limits — not measured

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SightingSeafloorSea tempDeepest dive (modelled)
May 19, 2018513 m12.4°C112 m
May 24, 2018106 m12.4°C87 m
May 25, 2018112 m13.0°C74 m
Jun 30, 201874 m13.7°C60 m
Aug 8, 201857 m12.4°C36 m
Aug 9, 201864 m13.0°C35 m
Aug 25, 201837 m14.7°C27 m
Nov 4, 2018120 m14.4°C85 m
Nov 9, 2018191 m13.1°C118 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 19, 2018 — seafloor 513 m (measured), deepest dive 112 m (modelled)May 19May 24, 2018 — seafloor 106 m (measured), deepest dive 87 m (modelled)May 24May 25, 2018 — seafloor 112 m (measured), deepest dive 74 m (modelled)May 25Jun 30, 2018 — seafloor 74 m (measured), deepest dive 60 m (modelled)Jun 30Aug 8, 2018 — seafloor 57 m (measured), deepest dive 36 m (modelled)Aug 8Aug 9, 2018 — seafloor 64 m (measured), deepest dive 35 m (modelled)Aug 9Aug 25, 2018 — seafloor 37 m (measured), deepest dive 27 m (modelled)Aug 25Nov 4, 2018 — seafloor 120 m (measured), deepest dive 85 m (modelled)Nov 4Nov 9, 2018 — seafloor 191 m (measured), deepest dive 118 m (modelled)Nov 9

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

Dives

118 m
Deepest dive
4:30
Longest dive
132
Dives
25 m
Avg dive depth
9
Sightings
174
Days first → last

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Dive profile

modelled
075150118 mstartdive sequence (illustrative)

Depth shaped by the seafloor limit here (191 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 · Nov 9, 2018

measured
Seafloor depth
191 m
Sea-surface temperature
13.1°C
Distance from shore
4.0 km

Across the residency · 9 sightings

measured
Seafloor depth
37 m – 513 m
Sea-surface temperature
12.4°C – 14.7°C
Distance from shore
2.0 km – 13.0 km

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

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Source records

This activity is assembled from 9 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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