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Santa Barbara Channel

CRC-15023 – Residency

3rd sighting in Santa Barbara Channel
Fluke of CRC-15023
CRC-15023 Confirmed in the catalog @138
Jul 15 – Oct 11, 2020 · Santa Barbara Channel

Santa Barbara Channel · Jul – Oct 2020

236 m
Deepest dive
8:41
Longest dive
21
Dives
Sightings
3
Days between first and last sighting
88
Deepest dive on record
236 m · this residency

Dive stats modelled within real depth limits — not measured

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SightingSeafloorSea tempDeepest dive (modelled)
Jul 15, 202054 m—48 m
Oct 10, 2020586 m—236 m
Oct 11, 2020158 m—100 m

Seafloor and sea temperature measured · ✳ dives modelled

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Deepest dive against the seafloor, per sighting

Seafloor · measured Deepest dive · modelled
Jul 15, 2020 — seafloor 54 m (measured), deepest dive 48 m (modelled)Jul 15Oct 10, 2020 — seafloor 586 m (measured), deepest dive 236 m (modelled)Oct 10Oct 11, 2020 — seafloor 158 m (measured), deepest dive 100 m (modelled)Oct 11

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

Dives

236 m
Deepest dive
8:41
Longest dive
21
Dives
48 m
Avg dive depth
3
Sightings
88
Days first → last

Dive metrics are modelled within real depth limits — not measured

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Dive profile

modelled
0125250236 mstartdive sequence (illustrative)

Depth shaped by the seafloor limit here (586 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 · Oct 10, 2020

measured
Seafloor depth
586 m
Sea-surface temperature
—
Distance from shore
15.0 km

Across the residency · 3 sightings

measured
Seafloor depth
54 m – 586 m
Sea-surface temperature
—
Distance from shore
2.0 km – 15.0 km

Sources: GEBCO seafloor grid · PacIOOS coastline distance

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Source records

This activity is assembled from 3 catalogued encounters on Happywhale.

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