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Santa Barbara Channel

CRC-23358 – Residency

2nd sighting in Santa Barbara Channel
Fluke of CRC-23358
CRC-23358 Confirmed in the catalog @137614
Mar 31 – Aug 7, 2025 · Santa Barbara Channel

Santa Barbara Channel · Mar – Aug 2025

189 m
Deepest dive
6:01
Longest dive
88
Dives
Sightings
5
Days between first and last sighting
128
Deepest dive on record
189 m · this residency

Dive stats modelled within real depth limits — not measured

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SightingSeafloorSea tempDeepest dive (modelled)
Mar 31, 202524 m—22 m
May 17, 2025482 m—189 m
May 18, 2025599 m—82 m
Jul 17, 2025358 m—109 m
Aug 7, 2025586 m—46 m

Seafloor and sea temperature measured · ✳ dives modelled

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Deepest dive against the seafloor, per sighting

Seafloor · measured Deepest dive · modelled
Mar 31, 2025 — seafloor 24 m (measured), deepest dive 22 m (modelled)Mar 31May 17, 2025 — seafloor 482 m (measured), deepest dive 189 m (modelled)May 17May 18, 2025 — seafloor 599 m (measured), deepest dive 82 m (modelled)May 18Jul 17, 2025 — seafloor 358 m (measured), deepest dive 109 m (modelled)Jul 17Aug 7, 2025 — seafloor 586 m (measured), deepest dive 46 m (modelled)Aug 7

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

Dives

189 m
Deepest dive
6:01
Longest dive
88
Dives
25 m
Avg dive depth
5
Sightings
128
Days first → last

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Dive profile

modelled
0100200189 mstartdive sequence (illustrative)

Depth shaped by the seafloor limit here (482 m) and the published dive-behaviour distribution. Modelled, not measured.

Deep Effort Score

Deep

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Place

Where this happened · May 17, 2025

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

Across the residency · 5 sightings

measured
Seafloor depth
24 m – 599 m
Sea-surface temperature
—
Distance from shore
1.0 km – 15.0 km

Sources: GEBCO seafloor grid · PacIOOS coastline distance

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Source records

This activity is assembled from 5 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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