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Santa Barbara Channel

Black Rakes – Residency

2nd sighting in Santa Barbara Channel
Fluke of Black Rakes
Black Rakes Confirmed in the catalog @1138
Jul 20, 2014 – Jan 21, 2015 · Santa Barbara Channel

Santa Barbara Channel · Jul 2014 – Jan 2015

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Deepest dive
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Longest dive
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Dives
Sightings
13
Days between first and last sighting
185

Dive stats modelled within real depth limits — not measured

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SightingSeafloorSea tempDeepest dive (modelled)
Jul 20, 2014277 m20.5°C—
Jul 23, 201449 m20.9°C—
Jul 26, 2014649 m21.9°C—
Aug 18, 2014786 m21.8°C—
Sep 11, 201439 m20.4°C—
Sep 15, 201437 m20.9°C—
Oct 25, 2014567 m17.6°C—
Nov 11, 2014155 m19.4°C—
Nov 12, 201449 m19.4°C—
Jan 1, 201564 m15.8°C—
Jan 3, 201592 m15.9°C—
Jan 19, 201513 m16.4°C—
Jan 21, 20159 m16.1°C—

Seafloor and sea temperature measured · ✳ dives modelled

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Deepest dive against the seafloor, per sighting

Seafloor · measured Deepest dive · modelled
Jul 20, 2014 — seafloor 277 m (measured), deepest dive — (modelled)Jul 20Jul 23, 2014 — seafloor 49 m (measured), deepest dive — (modelled)Jul 26, 2014 — seafloor 649 m (measured), deepest dive — (modelled)Aug 18, 2014 — seafloor 786 m (measured), deepest dive — (modelled)Aug 18Sep 11, 2014 — seafloor 39 m (measured), deepest dive — (modelled)Sep 15, 2014 — seafloor 37 m (measured), deepest dive — (modelled)Oct 25, 2014 — seafloor 567 m (measured), deepest dive — (modelled)Oct 25Nov 11, 2014 — seafloor 155 m (measured), deepest dive — (modelled)Nov 12, 2014 — seafloor 49 m (measured), deepest dive — (modelled)Jan 1, 2015 — seafloor 64 m (measured), deepest dive — (modelled)Jan 1Jan 3, 2015 — seafloor 92 m (measured), deepest dive — (modelled)Jan 19, 2015 — seafloor 13 m (measured), deepest dive — (modelled)Jan 21, 2015 — seafloor 9 m (measured), deepest dive — (modelled)Jan 21

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
13
Sightings
185
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 · Jan 21, 2015

measured
Seafloor depth
9 m
Sea-surface temperature
16.1°C
Distance from shore
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Across the residency · 13 sightings

measured
Seafloor depth
9 m – 786 m
Sea-surface temperature
15.8°C – 21.9°C
Distance from shore
2.0 km – 16.0 km

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

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Source records

This activity is assembled from 13 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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