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Santa Barbara Channel

HW-MN0430168 – Residency

4th sighting in Santa Barbara Channel
Fluke of HW-MN0430168
HW-MN0430168 Confirmed in the catalog @106497
Jun 29 – Sep 21, 2025 · Santa Barbara Channel

Santa Barbara Channel · Jun – Sep 2025

154 m
Deepest dive
5:34
Longest dive
45
Dives
Sightings
5
Days between first and last sighting
83
Deepest dive on record
154 m · this residency

Dive stats modelled within real depth limits — not measured

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SightingSeafloorSea tempDeepest dive (modelled)
Jun 29, 202573 m—61 m
Jul 31, 2025247 m—144 m
Aug 26, 2025586 m—154 m
Sep 15, 2025134 m—61 m
Sep 21, 2025279 m—114 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 29, 2025 — seafloor 73 m (measured), deepest dive 61 m (modelled)Jun 29Jul 31, 2025 — seafloor 247 m (measured), deepest dive 144 m (modelled)Jul 31Aug 26, 2025 — seafloor 586 m (measured), deepest dive 154 m (modelled)Aug 26Sep 15, 2025 — seafloor 134 m (measured), deepest dive 61 m (modelled)Sep 15Sep 21, 2025 — seafloor 279 m (measured), deepest dive 114 m (modelled)Sep 21

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

Dives

154 m
Deepest dive
5:34
Longest dive
45
Dives
35 m
Avg dive depth
5
Sightings
83
Days first → last

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Dive profile

modelled
0100200154 mstartdive sequence (illustrative)

Depth shaped by the seafloor limit here (586 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 · Aug 26, 2025

measured
Seafloor depth
586 m
Sea-surface temperature
—
Distance from shore
15.0 km

Across the residency · 5 sightings

measured
Seafloor depth
73 m – 586 m
Sea-surface temperature
—
Distance from shore
10.0 km – 15.0 km

Sources: GEBCO seafloor grid · PacIOOS coastline distance

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Source records

This activity is assembled from 5 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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