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Santa Barbara Channel

HW-MN0503766 – Residency

4th sighting in Santa Barbara Channel
Fluke of HW-MN0503766
HW-MN0503766 Confirmed in the catalog @140194
May 25 – Sep 23, 2025 · Santa Barbara Channel

Santa Barbara Channel · May – Sep 2025

97 m
Deepest dive
3:22
Longest dive
76
Dives
Sightings
5
Days between first and last sighting
121
Deepest dive on record
97 m · this residency

Dive stats modelled within real depth limits — not measured

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SightingSeafloorSea tempDeepest dive (modelled)
May 25, 2025127 m—97 m
Jul 17, 2025358 m—84 m
Aug 14, 2025586 m—84 m
Sep 21, 202579 m—55 m
Sep 23, 202598 m—73 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 25, 2025 — seafloor 127 m (measured), deepest dive 97 m (modelled)May 25Jul 17, 2025 — seafloor 358 m (measured), deepest dive 84 m (modelled)Jul 17Aug 14, 2025 — seafloor 586 m (measured), deepest dive 84 m (modelled)Aug 14Sep 21, 2025 — seafloor 79 m (measured), deepest dive 55 m (modelled)Sep 21Sep 23, 2025 — seafloor 98 m (measured), deepest dive 73 m (modelled)Sep 23

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

Dives

97 m
Deepest dive
3:22
Longest dive
76
Dives
27 m
Avg dive depth
5
Sightings
121
Days first → last

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Dive profile

modelled
05010097 mstartdive sequence (illustrative)

Depth shaped by the seafloor limit here (127 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 · May 25, 2025

measured
Seafloor depth
127 m
Sea-surface temperature
—
Distance from shore
6.0 km

Across the residency · 5 sightings

measured
Seafloor depth
79 m – 586 m
Sea-surface temperature
—
Distance from shore
6.0 km – 17.0 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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