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Santa Barbara Channel

HW-MN0503853 – Residency

2nd sighting in Santa Barbara Channel
Fluke of HW-MN0503853
HW-MN0503853 Confirmed in the catalog @142470
Jul 31 – Sep 28, 2025 · Santa Barbara Channel

Santa Barbara Channel · Jul – Sep 2025

106 m
Deepest dive
3:32
Longest dive
29
Dives
Sightings
3
Days between first and last sighting
59
Deepest dive on record
106 m · this residency

Dive stats modelled within real depth limits — not measured

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SightingSeafloorSea tempDeepest dive (modelled)
Jul 31, 2025247 m—106 m
Sep 10, 2025134 m—65 m
Sep 28, 2025165 m—88 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 31, 2025 — seafloor 247 m (measured), deepest dive 106 m (modelled)Jul 31Sep 10, 2025 — seafloor 134 m (measured), deepest dive 65 m (modelled)Sep 10Sep 28, 2025 — seafloor 165 m (measured), deepest dive 88 m (modelled)Sep 28

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

Dives

106 m
Deepest dive
3:32
Longest dive
29
Dives
36 m
Avg dive depth
3
Sightings
59
Days first → last

Dive metrics are modelled within real depth limits — not measured

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Dive profile

modelled
075150106 mstartdive sequence (illustrative)

Depth shaped by the seafloor limit here (247 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 31, 2025

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

Across the residency · 3 sightings

measured
Seafloor depth
134 m – 247 m
Sea-surface temperature
—
Distance from shore
10.0 km – 13.0 km

Sources: GEBCO seafloor grid · PacIOOS coastline distance

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Source records

This activity is assembled from 3 catalogued encounters on Happywhale.

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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