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Santa Barbara Channel

CRC-21859 – Residency

10th sighting in Santa Barbara Channel
Fluke of CRC-21859
CRC-21859 Confirmed in the catalog @109411
Apr 20 – Nov 8, 2025 · Santa Barbara Channel

Santa Barbara Channel · Apr – Nov 2025

158 m
Deepest dive
5:18
Longest dive
87
Dives
Sightings
8
Days between first and last sighting
202
Deepest dive on record
158 m · this residency

Dive stats modelled within real depth limits — not measured

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SightingSeafloorSea tempDeepest dive (modelled)
Apr 20, 202591 m—61 m
May 18, 2025599 m—158 m
May 19, 202549 m—40 m
Jul 14, 2025250 m—147 m
Aug 30, 202527 m—21 m
Sep 6, 202532 m—28 m
Oct 25, 2025290 m—109 m
Nov 8, 2025204 m—126 m

Seafloor and sea temperature measured · ✳ dives modelled

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Deepest dive against the seafloor, per sighting

Seafloor · measured Deepest dive · modelled
Apr 20, 2025 — seafloor 91 m (measured), deepest dive 61 m (modelled)Apr 20May 18, 2025 — seafloor 599 m (measured), deepest dive 158 m (modelled)May 18May 19, 2025 — seafloor 49 m (measured), deepest dive 40 m (modelled)May 19Jul 14, 2025 — seafloor 250 m (measured), deepest dive 147 m (modelled)Jul 14Aug 30, 2025 — seafloor 27 m (measured), deepest dive 21 m (modelled)Aug 30Sep 6, 2025 — seafloor 32 m (measured), deepest dive 28 m (modelled)Sep 6Oct 25, 2025 — seafloor 290 m (measured), deepest dive 109 m (modelled)Oct 25Nov 8, 2025 — seafloor 204 m (measured), deepest dive 126 m (modelled)Nov 8

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

Dives

158 m
Deepest dive
5:18
Longest dive
87
Dives
27 m
Avg dive depth
8
Sightings
202
Days first → last

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Dive profile

modelled
0100200158 mstartdive sequence (illustrative)

Depth shaped by the seafloor limit here (599 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 · May 18, 2025

measured
Seafloor depth
599 m
Sea-surface temperature
—
Distance from shore
12.0 km

Across the residency · 8 sightings

measured
Seafloor depth
27 m – 599 m
Sea-surface temperature
—
Distance from shore
1.0 km – 17.0 km

Sources: GEBCO seafloor grid · PacIOOS coastline distance

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Source records

This activity is assembled from 8 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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