2024-2025 calf of CRC-12484 – Residency
5th sighting in Santa Barbara Channel
2024-2025 calf of CRC-12484 @149007
Jun 25 – Aug 27, 2026 · Santa Barbara Channel
Full Summer in the Channel
Warm water, familiar drop-offs, my mother's channel feels like mine now.
85 m
Deepest dive
3:04
Longest dive
31
Dives
- Sightings
- 4
- Days between first and last sighting
- 63
Dive stats modelled within real depth limits — not measured
Get actual dive data with Risa Deep →| Sighting | Seafloor | Sea temp | Deepest dive (modelled) |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 25, 2026 | 379 m | 17.9°C | 85 m |
| Aug 13, 2026 | 99 m | 20.9°C | 46 m |
| Aug 22, 2026 | 315 m | 21.0°C | 76 m |
| Aug 27, 2026 | 81 m | 19.2°C | 62 m |
Seafloor and sea temperature measured · ✳ dives modelled
Deepest dive against the seafloor, per sighting
Seafloor · measured Deepest dive · modelledDepth runs down from the surface. The modelled dive never passes the measured seafloor at that sighting.
Dives
85 m
Deepest dive
3:04
Longest dive
31
Dives
25 m
Avg dive depth
4
Sightings
63
Days first → last
Dive metrics are modelled within real depth limits — not measured
Get actual dive data with Risa Deep →Dive profile
modelledDepth shaped by the seafloor limit here (379 m) and the published dive-behaviour distribution. Modelled, not measured.
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Where this happened · Jun 25, 2026
measured- Seafloor depth
- 379 m
- Sea-surface temperature
- 17.9°C
- Distance from shore
- 10.0 km
Across the residency · 4 sightings
measured- Seafloor depth
- 81 m – 379 m
- Sea-surface temperature
- 17.9°C – 21.0°C
- Distance from shore
- 3.0 km – 10.0 km
Sources: GEBCO seafloor grid · NASA JPL MUR sea temperature · PacIOOS coastline distance
Source records
This activity is assembled from 4 catalogued encounters on Happywhale.