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Santa Barbara Channel

Clover – Residency

8th sighting in Santa Barbara Channel
Fluke of Clover
Clover Confirmed in the catalog @144208
Jun 27 – Aug 22, 2026 · Santa Barbara Channel

Lucky Summer Waters

Green water, krill thick, my lucky four riding high all summer.

185 m
Deepest dive
5:04
Longest dive
49
Dives
Sightings
4
Days between first and last sighting
56
Deepest dive on record
185 m · this residency

Dive stats modelled within real depth limits — not measured

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SightingSeafloorSea tempDeepest dive (modelled)
Jun 27, 2026158 m17.3°C63 m
Jul 9, 2026163 m18.4°C115 m
Aug 21, 2026119 m21.1°C97 m
Aug 22, 2026316 m21.0°C185 m

Seafloor and sea temperature measured · ✳ dives modelled

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Deepest dive against the seafloor, per sighting

Seafloor · measured Deepest dive · modelled
Jun 27, 2026 — seafloor 158 m (measured), deepest dive 63 m (modelled)Jun 27Jul 9, 2026 — seafloor 163 m (measured), deepest dive 115 m (modelled)Jul 9Aug 21, 2026 — seafloor 119 m (measured), deepest dive 97 m (modelled)Aug 21Aug 22, 2026 — seafloor 316 m (measured), deepest dive 185 m (modelled)Aug 22

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

Dives

185 m
Deepest dive
5:04
Longest dive
49
Dives
41 m
Avg dive depth
4
Sightings
56
Days first → last

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Dive profile

modelled
0100200185 mstartdive sequence (illustrative)

Depth shaped by the seafloor limit here (316 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 · Aug 22, 2026

measured
Seafloor depth
316 m
Sea-surface temperature
21.0°C
Distance from shore
11.0 km

Across the residency · 4 sightings

measured
Seafloor depth
119 m – 316 m
Sea-surface temperature
17.3°C – 21.1°C
Distance from shore
5.0 km – 17.0 km

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

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Source records

This activity is assembled from 4 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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