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Fluke of Black Rakes Confirmed in the catalog

Black Rakes @1138

Black Rakes is the 2013-2014 calf of Chompers, CRC-10532, first seen off southern California in July 2014, and stayed with his or her mother through at least January 2015. They were separated by June 2015. (Thank you Alisa for this bio!) This whale is known from research conducted by Cascadia Research Collective and collaborators

Santa Barbara Channel · North Pacific

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33 Following 15 Followers
61
Sightings
13
Years
0
Crossings
Last 12 months 1 sighting
  1. N 2025-11: 0 sightings
  2. D 2025-12: 0 sightings
  3. J 2026-01: 0 sightings
  4. F 2026-02: 0 sightings
  5. M 2026-03: 0 sightings
  6. A 2026-04: 0 sightings
  7. M 2026-05: 0 sightings
  8. J 2026-06: 1 sighting
  9. J 2026-07: 0 sightings
  10. A 2026-08: 0 sightings
  11. S 2026-09: 0 sightings
  12. O 2026-10: 0 sightings

Recent activity

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Activity map — real sighting points on an OpenStreetMap basemap © OpenStreetMap contributors
 Santa Barbara Channel · Jun 2026 Jun 27, 2026 · Santa Barbara Channel · 1 sighting Deepest dive25 m Longest dive1:11
Activity map — real sighting points on an OpenStreetMap basemap © OpenStreetMap contributors
 Santa Barbara Channel · Apr 2025 Apr 12 – 13, 2025 · Santa Barbara Channel · 2 sightings Deepest dive103 m Longest dive4:14
Activity map — real sighting points on an OpenStreetMap basemap © OpenStreetMap contributors
 Santa Barbara Channel · Oct – Nov 2024 Oct 19 – Nov 2, 2024 · Santa Barbara Channel · 6 sightings Deepest dive216 m Longest dive8:54
Activity map — real sighting points on an OpenStreetMap basemap © OpenStreetMap contributors
 Monterey Bay · Sep – Nov 2023 Sep 10 – Nov 3, 2023 · Monterey Bay · 5 sightings Deepest dive170 m Longest dive6:18

✳ Dive stats modelled, not measured

Sightings by year

2014 – 2026
2014
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2023
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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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