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Santa Barbara Channel

2024-2025 calf of Grumpy – Residency

3rd sighting in Santa Barbara Channel
Fluke of 2024-2025 calf of Grumpy
2024-2025 calf of Grumpy Confirmed in the catalog @144203
Jul 9 – 13, 2026 · Santa Barbara Channel

Santa Barbara Channel · Jul 2026

70 m
Deepest dive
2:51
Longest dive
33
Dives
Sightings
3
Days between first and last sighting
4
Deepest dive on record
70 m · this residency

Dive stats modelled within real depth limits — not measured

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SightingSeafloorSea tempDeepest dive (modelled)
Jul 9, 2026586 m17.8°C28 m
Jul 12, 2026104 m19.4°C70 m
Jul 13, 2026128 m19.5°C68 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 9, 2026 — seafloor 586 m (measured), deepest dive 28 m (modelled)Jul 9Jul 12, 2026 — seafloor 104 m (measured), deepest dive 70 m (modelled)Jul 12Jul 13, 2026 — seafloor 128 m (measured), deepest dive 68 m (modelled)Jul 13

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

Dives

70 m
Deepest dive
2:51
Longest dive
33
Dives
27 m
Avg dive depth
3
Sightings
4
Days first → last

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Dive profile

modelled
05010070 mstartdive sequence (illustrative)

Depth shaped by the seafloor limit here (104 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 12, 2026

measured
Seafloor depth
104 m
Sea-surface temperature
19.4°C
Distance from shore
14.0 km

Across the residency · 3 sightings

measured
Seafloor depth
104 m – 586 m
Sea-surface temperature
17.8°C – 19.5°C
Distance from shore
14.0 km – 19.0 km

Sources: GEBCO seafloor grid · NASA JPL MUR sea temperature · PacIOOS coastline distance

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Source records

This activity is assembled from 3 catalogued encounters on Happywhale.

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