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Monterey Bay

Little Dipper's Mom – Residency

15th sighting in Monterey Bay
Fluke of Little Dipper's Mom
Little Dipper's Mom Confirmed in the catalog @955
Mar 15 – Jul 21, 2019 · Monterey Bay

Monterey Bay · Mar – Jul 2019

92 m
Deepest dive
4:26
Longest dive
82
Dives
Sightings
6
Days between first and last sighting
128

Dive stats modelled within real depth limits — not measured

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SightingSeafloorSea tempDeepest dive (modelled)
Mar 15, 201957 m13.3°C48 m
Mar 16, 2019104 m13.1°C92 m
Apr 3, 2019215 m13.6°C92 m
Jun 27, 201926 m15.4°C16 m
Jul 17, 201923 m13.1°C18 m
Jul 21, 201922 m14.8°C19 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 15, 2019 — seafloor 57 m (measured), deepest dive 48 m (modelled)Mar 15Mar 16, 2019 — seafloor 104 m (measured), deepest dive 92 m (modelled)Mar 16Apr 3, 2019 — seafloor 215 m (measured), deepest dive 92 m (modelled)Apr 3Jun 27, 2019 — seafloor 26 m (measured), deepest dive 16 m (modelled)Jun 27Jul 17, 2019 — seafloor 23 m (measured), deepest dive 18 m (modelled)Jul 17Jul 21, 2019 — seafloor 22 m (measured), deepest dive 19 m (modelled)Jul 21

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

Dives

92 m
Deepest dive
4:26
Longest dive
82
Dives
19 m
Avg dive depth
6
Sightings
128
Days first → last

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Dive profile

modelled
05010092 mstartdive sequence (illustrative)

Depth shaped by the seafloor limit here (104 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 · Mar 16, 2019

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

Across the residency · 6 sightings

measured
Seafloor depth
22 m – 215 m
Sea-surface temperature
13.1°C – 15.4°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 6 catalogued encounters on Happywhale.

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