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Santa Barbara Channel

Snowflake – Residency

5th sighting in Santa Barbara Channel
Fluke of Snowflake
Snowflake Confirmed in the catalog @10972
Jun 7 – Dec 14, 2018 · Santa Barbara Channel

Santa Barbara Channel · Jun – Dec 2018

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Deepest dive
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Longest dive
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Dives
Sightings
14
Days between first and last sighting
190

Dive stats modelled within real depth limits — not measured

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SightingSeafloorSea tempDeepest dive (modelled)
Jun 7, 201849 m19.2°C—
Jun 21, 201876 m18.9°C—
Jun 25, 201876 m19.6°C—
Jul 1, 201822 m19.7°C—
Jul 6, 2018133 m20.5°C—
Aug 15, 2018346 m22.0°C—
Aug 16, 2018297 m22.0°C—
Aug 19, 2018192 m22.5°C—
Sep 11, 2018394 m19.2°C—
Sep 11, 2018446 m19.5°C—
Oct 10, 201859 m20.6°C—
Oct 22, 2018813 m20.0°C—
Nov 15, 2018903 m19.2°C—
Dec 14, 2018-130 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 7, 2018 — seafloor 49 m (measured), deepest dive — (modelled)Jun 7Jun 21, 2018 — seafloor 76 m (measured), deepest dive — (modelled)Jun 25, 2018 — seafloor 76 m (measured), deepest dive — (modelled)Jul 1, 2018 — seafloor 22 m (measured), deepest dive — (modelled)Jul 1Jul 6, 2018 — seafloor 133 m (measured), deepest dive — (modelled)Aug 15, 2018 — seafloor 346 m (measured), deepest dive — (modelled)Aug 16, 2018 — seafloor 297 m (measured), deepest dive — (modelled)Aug 16Aug 19, 2018 — seafloor 192 m (measured), deepest dive — (modelled)Sep 11, 2018 — seafloor 394 m (measured), deepest dive — (modelled)Sep 11, 2018 — seafloor 446 m (measured), deepest dive — (modelled)Sep 11Oct 10, 2018 — seafloor 59 m (measured), deepest dive — (modelled)Oct 22, 2018 — seafloor 813 m (measured), deepest dive — (modelled)Nov 15, 2018 — seafloor 903 m (measured), deepest dive — (modelled)Nov 15Dec 14, 2018 — seafloor -130 m (measured), deepest dive — (modelled)

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

Dives

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Deepest dive
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Longest dive
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Dives
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Avg dive depth
14
Sightings
190
Days first → last

Dive metrics are modelled within real depth limits — not measured

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Dive profile

modelled
02550startdive sequence (illustrative)

Modelled from the published dive-behaviour distribution. 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 · Dec 14, 2018

measured
Seafloor depth
-130 m
Sea-surface temperature
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Distance from shore
1.0 km

Across the residency · 14 sightings

measured
Seafloor depth
-130 m – 903 m
Sea-surface temperature
18.9°C – 22.5°C
Distance from shore
1.0 km – 25.0 km

Sources: GEBCO seafloor grid · NASA JPL MUR sea temperature · PacIOOS coastline distance

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Source records

This activity is assembled from 14 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.

The photographs and fluke identifications behind every sighting are the work of the contributing observers — the citizen scientists, naturalists and operators who logged them, each named in the underlying GBIF occurrence record. Every activity links out to its source encounters on Happywhale. Basemaps © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL).

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