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Santa Barbara Channel

CRC-23154 – Residency

7th sighting in Santa Barbara Channel
Fluke of CRC-23154
CRC-23154 Confirmed in the catalog @114415
Apr 6 – Dec 28, 2025 · Santa Barbara Channel

Santa Barbara Channel · Apr – Dec 2025

243 m
Deepest dive
8:39
Longest dive
97
Dives
Sightings
9
Days between first and last sighting
266
Deepest dive on record
243 m · this residency

Dive stats modelled within real depth limits — not measured

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SightingSeafloorSea tempDeepest dive (modelled)
Apr 6, 2025234 m—120 m
May 9, 2025212 m—87 m
Jun 19, 2025106 m—49 m
Jul 17, 2025358 m—243 m
Jul 21, 202540 m—33 m
Sep 6, 2025187 m—124 m
Sep 26, 202559 m—39 m
Nov 6, 2025320 m—55 m
Dec 28, 2025894 m—51 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 6, 2025 — seafloor 234 m (measured), deepest dive 120 m (modelled)Apr 6May 9, 2025 — seafloor 212 m (measured), deepest dive 87 m (modelled)May 9Jun 19, 2025 — seafloor 106 m (measured), deepest dive 49 m (modelled)Jun 19Jul 17, 2025 — seafloor 358 m (measured), deepest dive 243 m (modelled)Jul 17Jul 21, 2025 — seafloor 40 m (measured), deepest dive 33 m (modelled)Jul 21Sep 6, 2025 — seafloor 187 m (measured), deepest dive 124 m (modelled)Sep 6Sep 26, 2025 — seafloor 59 m (measured), deepest dive 39 m (modelled)Sep 26Nov 6, 2025 — seafloor 320 m (measured), deepest dive 55 m (modelled)Nov 6Dec 28, 2025 — seafloor 894 m (measured), deepest dive 51 m (modelled)Dec 28

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

Dives

243 m
Deepest dive
8:39
Longest dive
97
Dives
29 m
Avg dive depth
9
Sightings
266
Days first → last

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Dive profile

modelled
0125250243 mstartdive sequence (illustrative)

Depth shaped by the seafloor limit here (358 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 17, 2025

measured
Seafloor depth
358 m
Sea-surface temperature
—
Distance from shore
9.0 km

Across the residency · 9 sightings

measured
Seafloor depth
40 m – 894 m
Sea-surface temperature
—
Distance from shore
4.0 km – 18.0 km

Sources: GEBCO seafloor grid · PacIOOS coastline distance

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Source records

This activity is assembled from 9 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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