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Santa Barbara Channel

161374 – Residency

6th sighting in Santa Barbara Channel
Fluke of 161374
161374 Confirmed in the catalog @161374
Jun 21 – Aug 9, 2026 · Santa Barbara Channel

This Channel's Mine

Found the feed, kept finding it, kept showing up for it.

127 m
Deepest dive
3:36
Longest dive
74
Dives
Sightings
6
Days between first and last sighting
49
Deepest dive on record
127 m · this residency

Dive stats modelled within real depth limits — not measured

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SightingSeafloorSea tempDeepest dive (modelled)
Jun 21, 202675 m17.6°C21 m
Jun 21, 202664 m17.2°C38 m
Jun 24, 2026178 m17.5°C127 m
Jul 10, 2026243 m18.4°C72 m
Jul 26, 2026317 m21.2°C69 m
Aug 9, 2026105 m21.7°C79 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 21, 2026 — seafloor 75 m (measured), deepest dive 21 m (modelled)Jun 21Jun 21, 2026 — seafloor 64 m (measured), deepest dive 38 m (modelled)Jun 21Jun 24, 2026 — seafloor 178 m (measured), deepest dive 127 m (modelled)Jun 24Jul 10, 2026 — seafloor 243 m (measured), deepest dive 72 m (modelled)Jul 10Jul 26, 2026 — seafloor 317 m (measured), deepest dive 69 m (modelled)Jul 26Aug 9, 2026 — seafloor 105 m (measured), deepest dive 79 m (modelled)Aug 9

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

Dives

127 m
Deepest dive
3:36
Longest dive
74
Dives
23 m
Avg dive depth
6
Sightings
49
Days first → last

Dive metrics are modelled within real depth limits — not measured

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Dive profile

modelled
075150127 mstartdive sequence (illustrative)

Depth shaped by the seafloor limit here (178 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 · Jun 24, 2026

measured
Seafloor depth
178 m
Sea-surface temperature
17.5°C
Distance from shore
17.0 km

Across the residency · 6 sightings

measured
Seafloor depth
64 m – 317 m
Sea-surface temperature
17.2°C – 21.7°C
Distance from shore
4.0 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 6 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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