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Santa Barbara Channel

HW-MN0503836 – Residency

13th sighting in Santa Barbara Channel
Fluke of HW-MN0503836
HW-MN0503836 Confirmed in the catalog @142453
Jul 20 – Dec 7, 2025 · Santa Barbara Channel

Santa Barbara Channel · Jul – Dec 2025

118 m
Deepest dive
5:07
Longest dive
116
Dives
Sightings
14
Days between first and last sighting
140
Deepest dive on record
118 m · this residency

Dive stats modelled within real depth limits — not measured

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SightingSeafloorSea tempDeepest dive (modelled)
Jul 20, 2025213 m—72 m
Aug 27, 20256 m—5 m
Aug 30, 202569 m—48 m
Aug 30, 2025115 m—38 m
Aug 31, 2025192 m—56 m
Aug 31, 202584 m—61 m
Sep 1, 202573 m—28 m
Sep 1, 202570 m—57 m
Sep 2, 2025147 m—25 m
Sep 4, 202582 m—50 m
Sep 5, 2025147 m—118 m
Sep 6, 2025129 m—98 m
Oct 13, 202597 m—73 m
Dec 7, 2025218 m—89 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 20, 2025 — seafloor 213 m (measured), deepest dive 72 m (modelled)Jul 20Aug 27, 2025 — seafloor 6 m (measured), deepest dive 5 m (modelled)Aug 30, 2025 — seafloor 69 m (measured), deepest dive 48 m (modelled)Aug 30, 2025 — seafloor 115 m (measured), deepest dive 38 m (modelled)Aug 30Aug 31, 2025 — seafloor 192 m (measured), deepest dive 56 m (modelled)Aug 31, 2025 — seafloor 84 m (measured), deepest dive 61 m (modelled)Sep 1, 2025 — seafloor 73 m (measured), deepest dive 28 m (modelled)Sep 1Sep 1, 2025 — seafloor 70 m (measured), deepest dive 57 m (modelled)Sep 2, 2025 — seafloor 147 m (measured), deepest dive 25 m (modelled)Sep 4, 2025 — seafloor 82 m (measured), deepest dive 50 m (modelled)Sep 4Sep 5, 2025 — seafloor 147 m (measured), deepest dive 118 m (modelled)Sep 6, 2025 — seafloor 129 m (measured), deepest dive 98 m (modelled)Oct 13, 2025 — seafloor 97 m (measured), deepest dive 73 m (modelled)Oct 13Dec 7, 2025 — seafloor 218 m (measured), deepest dive 89 m (modelled)

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

Dives

118 m
Deepest dive
5:07
Longest dive
116
Dives
28 m
Avg dive depth
14
Sightings
140
Days first → last

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Dive profile

modelled
075150118 mstartdive sequence (illustrative)

Depth shaped by the seafloor limit here (147 m) and the published dive-behaviour distribution. Modelled, not measured.

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Place

Where this happened · Sep 5, 2025

measured
Seafloor depth
147 m
Sea-surface temperature
—
Distance from shore
18.0 km

Across the residency · 14 sightings

measured
Seafloor depth
6 m – 218 m
Sea-surface temperature
—
Distance from shore
1.0 km – 19.0 km

Sources: GEBCO seafloor grid · PacIOOS coastline distance

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Source records

This activity is assembled from 14 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.

The photographs and fluke identifications behind every sighting are the work of the contributing observers — the citizen scientists, naturalists and operators who logged them, each named in the underlying GBIF occurrence record. Every activity links out to its source encounters on Happywhale. Basemaps © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL).

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