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Santa Barbara Channel

Shauna – Residency

22nd sighting in Santa Barbara Channel
Fluke of Shauna
Shauna Confirmed in the catalog @182
Apr 5 – 6, 2022 · Santa Barbara Channel

Santa Barbara Revisited

The channel calls me back like an old friend with stories to tell.

180 m
Deepest dive
6:04
Longest dive
18
Dives
Sightings
2
Days between first and last sighting
Same day

Dive stats modelled within real depth limits — not measured

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SightingSeafloorSea tempDeepest dive (modelled)
Apr 5, 2022196 m13.6°C76 m
Apr 6, 2022304 m13.7°C180 m

Seafloor and sea temperature measured · ✳ dives modelled

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Deepest dive against the seafloor, per sighting

Seafloor · measured Deepest dive · modelled
Apr 5, 2022 — seafloor 196 m (measured), deepest dive 76 m (modelled)Apr 5Apr 6, 2022 — seafloor 304 m (measured), deepest dive 180 m (modelled)Apr 6

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

Dives

180 m
Deepest dive
6:04
Longest dive
18
Dives
36 m
Avg dive depth
2
Sightings
Same day
Days first → last

Dive metrics are modelled within real depth limits — not measured

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Dive profile

modelled
0100200180 mstartdive sequence (illustrative)

Depth shaped by the seafloor limit here (304 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 · Apr 6, 2022

measured
Seafloor depth
304 m
Sea-surface temperature
13.7°C
Distance from shore
10.0 km

Across the residency · 2 sightings

measured
Seafloor depth
196 m – 304 m
Sea-surface temperature
13.6°C – 13.7°C
Distance from shore
8.0 km – 10.0 km

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

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Source records

This activity is assembled from 2 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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