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Santa Barbara Channel

Chompers – Residency

18th sighting in Santa Barbara Channel
Fluke of Chompers
Chompers Confirmed in the catalog @1
Jun 11 – Oct 26, 2021 · Santa Barbara Channel

Summer Santa Barbara Residency

Found my favorite feeding grounds again and decided to stick around for the season.

144 m
Deepest dive
4:37
Longest dive
106
Dives
Sightings
10
Days between first and last sighting
137

Dive stats modelled within real depth limits — not measured

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SightingSeafloorSea tempDeepest dive (modelled)
Jun 11, 202159 m18.6°C30 m
Jun 11, 2021578 m17.7°C30 m
Jun 26, 2021118 m19.9°C107 m
Jul 15, 2021175 m20.7°C144 m
Aug 13, 2021313 m17.7°C63 m
Aug 14, 2021251 m18.8°C73 m
Aug 14, 2021201 m19.0°C107 m
Sep 7, 2021173 m18.7°C93 m
Oct 10, 2021244 m17.8°C74 m
Oct 26, 2021381 m16.0°C24 m

Seafloor and sea temperature measured · ✳ dives modelled

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Deepest dive against the seafloor, per sighting

Seafloor · measured Deepest dive · modelled
Jun 11, 2021 — seafloor 59 m (measured), deepest dive 30 m (modelled)Jun 11Jun 11, 2021 — seafloor 578 m (measured), deepest dive 30 m (modelled)Jun 11Jun 26, 2021 — seafloor 118 m (measured), deepest dive 107 m (modelled)Jun 26Jul 15, 2021 — seafloor 175 m (measured), deepest dive 144 m (modelled)Jul 15Aug 13, 2021 — seafloor 313 m (measured), deepest dive 63 m (modelled)Aug 13Aug 14, 2021 — seafloor 251 m (measured), deepest dive 73 m (modelled)Aug 14Aug 14, 2021 — seafloor 201 m (measured), deepest dive 107 m (modelled)Aug 14Sep 7, 2021 — seafloor 173 m (measured), deepest dive 93 m (modelled)Sep 7Oct 10, 2021 — seafloor 244 m (measured), deepest dive 74 m (modelled)Oct 10Oct 26, 2021 — seafloor 381 m (measured), deepest dive 24 m (modelled)Oct 26

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

Dives

144 m
Deepest dive
4:37
Longest dive
106
Dives
25 m
Avg dive depth
10
Sightings
137
Days first → last

Dive metrics are modelled within real depth limits — not measured

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Dive profile

modelled
075150144 mstartdive sequence (illustrative)

Depth shaped by the seafloor limit here (175 m) and the published dive-behaviour distribution. Modelled, not measured.

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Place

Where this happened · Jul 15, 2021

measured
Seafloor depth
175 m
Sea-surface temperature
20.7°C
Distance from shore
5.0 km

Across the residency · 10 sightings

measured
Seafloor depth
59 m – 578 m
Sea-surface temperature
16.0°C – 20.7°C
Distance from shore
5.0 km – 17.0 km

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

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Source records

This activity is assembled from 10 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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