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Santa Barbara Channel

CRC-21849 – Residency

4th sighting in Santa Barbara Channel
Fluke of CRC-21849
CRC-21849 Confirmed in the catalog @109399
Aug 24 – Nov 7, 2025 · Santa Barbara Channel

Santa Barbara Channel · Aug – Nov 2025

170 m
Deepest dive
6:47
Longest dive
30
Dives
Sightings
3
Days between first and last sighting
74

Dive stats modelled within real depth limits — not measured

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SightingSeafloorSea tempDeepest dive (modelled)
Aug 24, 2025586 m—170 m
Sep 25, 2025187 m—57 m
Nov 7, 202574 m—54 m

Seafloor and sea temperature measured · ✳ dives modelled

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Deepest dive against the seafloor, per sighting

Seafloor · measured Deepest dive · modelled
Aug 24, 2025 — seafloor 586 m (measured), deepest dive 170 m (modelled)Aug 24Sep 25, 2025 — seafloor 187 m (measured), deepest dive 57 m (modelled)Sep 25Nov 7, 2025 — seafloor 74 m (measured), deepest dive 54 m (modelled)Nov 7

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

Dives

170 m
Deepest dive
6:47
Longest dive
30
Dives
32 m
Avg dive depth
3
Sightings
74
Days first → last

Dive metrics are modelled within real depth limits — not measured

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Dive profile

modelled
0100200170 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 24, 2025

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

Across the residency · 3 sightings

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

Sources: GEBCO seafloor grid · PacIOOS coastline distance

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Source records

This activity is assembled from 3 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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