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Santa Barbara Channel

Zephyr – Residency

2nd sighting in Santa Barbara Channel
Fluke of Zephyr
Zephyr Confirmed in the catalog @101377
Jul 19 – Nov 27, 2024 · Santa Barbara Channel

Santa Barbara Channel · Jul – Nov 2024

54 m
Deepest dive
2:27
Longest dive
44
Dives
Sightings
4
Days between first and last sighting
130

Dive stats modelled within real depth limits — not measured

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SightingSeafloorSea tempDeepest dive (modelled)
Jul 19, 202421 m—18 m
Sep 21, 2024183 m—54 m
Sep 28, 2024234 m—54 m
Nov 27, 202411 m—10 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 19, 2024 — seafloor 21 m (measured), deepest dive 18 m (modelled)Jul 19Sep 21, 2024 — seafloor 183 m (measured), deepest dive 54 m (modelled)Sep 21Sep 28, 2024 — seafloor 234 m (measured), deepest dive 54 m (modelled)Sep 28Nov 27, 2024 — seafloor 11 m (measured), deepest dive 10 m (modelled)Nov 27

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

Dives

54 m
Deepest dive
2:27
Longest dive
44
Dives
14 m
Avg dive depth
4
Sightings
130
Days first → last

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Dive profile

modelled
05010054 mstartdive sequence (illustrative)

Depth shaped by the seafloor limit here (183 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 · Sep 28, 2024

measured
Seafloor depth
234 m
Sea-surface temperature
—
Distance from shore
14.0 km

Across the residency · 4 sightings

measured
Seafloor depth
11 m – 234 m
Sea-surface temperature
—
Distance from shore
2.0 km – 16.0 km

Sources: GEBCO seafloor grid · PacIOOS coastline distance

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Source records

This activity is assembled from 4 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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