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Santa Barbara Channel

CRC-21859 – Residency

4th sighting in Santa Barbara Channel
Fluke of CRC-21859
CRC-21859 Confirmed in the catalog @109411
May 29 – Jul 16, 2024 · Santa Barbara Channel

Santa Barbara Channel · May – Jul 2024

87 m
Deepest dive
3:41
Longest dive
76
Dives
Sightings
4
Days between first and last sighting
48

Dive stats modelled within real depth limits — not measured

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SightingSeafloorSea tempDeepest dive (modelled)
May 29, 202465 m—59 m
Jun 12, 2024193 m—46 m
Jul 12, 2024157 m—87 m
Jul 16, 202483 m—65 m

Seafloor and sea temperature measured · ✳ dives modelled

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Deepest dive against the seafloor, per sighting

Seafloor · measured Deepest dive · modelled
May 29, 2024 — seafloor 65 m (measured), deepest dive 59 m (modelled)May 29Jun 12, 2024 — seafloor 193 m (measured), deepest dive 46 m (modelled)Jun 12Jul 12, 2024 — seafloor 157 m (measured), deepest dive 87 m (modelled)Jul 12Jul 16, 2024 — seafloor 83 m (measured), deepest dive 65 m (modelled)Jul 16

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

Dives

87 m
Deepest dive
3:41
Longest dive
76
Dives
23 m
Avg dive depth
4
Sightings
48
Days first → last

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Dive profile

modelled
05010087 mstartdive sequence (illustrative)

Depth shaped by the seafloor limit here (157 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 · Jul 12, 2024

measured
Seafloor depth
157 m
Sea-surface temperature
—
Distance from shore
10.0 km

Across the residency · 4 sightings

measured
Seafloor depth
65 m – 193 m
Sea-surface temperature
—
Distance from shore
3.0 km – 14.0 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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