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Santa Barbara Channel

CRC-10306 – Residency

6th sighting in Santa Barbara Channel
Fluke of CRC-10306
CRC-10306 Confirmed in the catalog @199
May 4 – 9, 2012 · Santa Barbara Channel

Santa Barbara Channel · May 2012

168 m
Deepest dive
6:37
Longest dive
49
Dives
Sightings
3
Days between first and last sighting
5

Dive stats modelled within real depth limits — not measured

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SightingSeafloorSea tempDeepest dive (modelled)
May 4, 2012228 m—168 m
May 6, 201287 m—63 m
May 9, 2012131 m—92 m

Seafloor and sea temperature measured · ✳ dives modelled

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Deepest dive against the seafloor, per sighting

Seafloor · measured Deepest dive · modelled
May 4, 2012 — seafloor 228 m (measured), deepest dive 168 m (modelled)May 4May 6, 2012 — seafloor 87 m (measured), deepest dive 63 m (modelled)May 6May 9, 2012 — seafloor 131 m (measured), deepest dive 92 m (modelled)May 9

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

Dives

168 m
Deepest dive
6:37
Longest dive
49
Dives
28 m
Avg dive depth
3
Sightings
5
Days first → last

Dive metrics are modelled within real depth limits — not measured

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Dive profile

modelled
0100200168 mstartdive sequence (illustrative)

Depth shaped by the seafloor limit here (228 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 · May 4, 2012

measured
Seafloor depth
228 m
Sea-surface temperature
—
Distance from shore
7.0 km

Across the residency · 3 sightings

measured
Seafloor depth
87 m – 228 m
Sea-surface temperature
—
Distance from shore
3.0 km – 7.0 km

Sources: GEBCO seafloor grid · PacIOOS coastline distance

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Source records

This activity is assembled from 3 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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