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Santa Barbara Channel

Chompers – Residency

10th sighting in Santa Barbara Channel
Fluke of Chompers
Chompers Confirmed in the catalog @1
Sep 10, 2018 – Apr 7, 2019 · Santa Barbara Channel

Santa Barbara Channel · Sep 2018 – Apr 2019

242 m
Deepest dive
5:48
Longest dive
97
Dives
Sightings
9
Days between first and last sighting
209

Dive stats modelled within real depth limits — not measured

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SightingSeafloorSea tempDeepest dive (modelled)
Sep 10, 201875 m18.9°C59 m
Dec 7, 2018389 m17.0°C100 m
Jan 19, 2019498 m15.9°C98 m
Jan 19, 201956 m15.9°C33 m
Jan 20, 201949 m15.9°C22 m
Mar 16, 2019348 m14.6°C242 m
Mar 17, 2019355 m14.6°C70 m
Mar 20, 2019526 m14.8°C142 m
Apr 7, 201949 m16.4°C37 m

Seafloor and sea temperature measured · ✳ dives modelled

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Deepest dive against the seafloor, per sighting

Seafloor · measured Deepest dive · modelled
Sep 10, 2018 — seafloor 75 m (measured), deepest dive 59 m (modelled)Sep 10Dec 7, 2018 — seafloor 389 m (measured), deepest dive 100 m (modelled)Dec 7Jan 19, 2019 — seafloor 498 m (measured), deepest dive 98 m (modelled)Jan 19Jan 19, 2019 — seafloor 56 m (measured), deepest dive 33 m (modelled)Jan 19Jan 20, 2019 — seafloor 49 m (measured), deepest dive 22 m (modelled)Jan 20Mar 16, 2019 — seafloor 348 m (measured), deepest dive 242 m (modelled)Mar 16Mar 17, 2019 — seafloor 355 m (measured), deepest dive 70 m (modelled)Mar 17Mar 20, 2019 — seafloor 526 m (measured), deepest dive 142 m (modelled)Mar 20Apr 7, 2019 — seafloor 49 m (measured), deepest dive 37 m (modelled)Apr 7

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

Dives

242 m
Deepest dive
5:48
Longest dive
97
Dives
28 m
Avg dive depth
9
Sightings
209
Days first → last

Dive metrics are modelled within real depth limits — not measured

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Dive profile

modelled
0125250242 mstartdive sequence (illustrative)

Depth shaped by the seafloor limit here (348 m) and the published dive-behaviour distribution. Modelled, not measured.

Deep Effort Score

Deep

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Place

Where this happened · Mar 16, 2019

measured
Seafloor depth
348 m
Sea-surface temperature
14.6°C
Distance from shore
9.0 km

Across the residency · 9 sightings

measured
Seafloor depth
49 m – 526 m
Sea-surface temperature
14.6°C – 18.9°C
Distance from shore
2.0 km – 14.0 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.

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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