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Santa Barbara Channel

CRC-23138 – Residency

1st sighting in Santa Barbara Channel
Fluke of CRC-23138
CRC-23138 Confirmed in the catalog @140190
May 17 – Dec 6, 2025 · Santa Barbara Channel

Santa Barbara Channel · May – Dec 2025

153 m
Deepest dive
6:30
Longest dive
69
Dives
Sightings
6
Days between first and last sighting
203

Dive stats modelled within real depth limits — not measured

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SightingSeafloorSea tempDeepest dive (modelled)
May 17, 2025314 m—50 m
May 24, 202538 m—15 m
Jul 13, 2025203 m—153 m
Oct 8, 2025179 m—70 m
Oct 16, 2025445 m—57 m
Dec 6, 20251,032 m—79 m

Seafloor and sea temperature measured · ✳ dives modelled

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Deepest dive against the seafloor, per sighting

Seafloor · measured Deepest dive · modelled
May 17, 2025 — seafloor 314 m (measured), deepest dive 50 m (modelled)May 17May 24, 2025 — seafloor 38 m (measured), deepest dive 15 m (modelled)May 24Jul 13, 2025 — seafloor 203 m (measured), deepest dive 153 m (modelled)Jul 13Oct 8, 2025 — seafloor 179 m (measured), deepest dive 70 m (modelled)Oct 8Oct 16, 2025 — seafloor 445 m (measured), deepest dive 57 m (modelled)Oct 16Dec 6, 2025 — seafloor 1,032 m (measured), deepest dive 79 m (modelled)Dec 6

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

Dives

153 m
Deepest dive
6:30
Longest dive
69
Dives
26 m
Avg dive depth
6
Sightings
203
Days first → last

Dive metrics are modelled within real depth limits — not measured

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Dive profile

modelled
0100200153 mstartdive sequence (illustrative)

Depth shaped by the seafloor limit here (203 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 13, 2025

measured
Seafloor depth
203 m
Sea-surface temperature
—
Distance from shore
10.0 km

Across the residency · 6 sightings

measured
Seafloor depth
38 m – 1,032 m
Sea-surface temperature
—
Distance from shore
7.0 km – 21.0 km

Sources: GEBCO seafloor grid · PacIOOS coastline distance

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Source records

This activity is assembled from 6 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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