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Santa Barbara Channel

CRC-11865 – Residency

4th sighting in Santa Barbara Channel
Fluke of CRC-11865
CRC-11865 Confirmed in the catalog @203
Mar 14 – Aug 27, 2009 · Santa Barbara Channel

Santa Barbara Channel · Mar – Aug 2009

148 m
Deepest dive
4:56
Longest dive
29
Dives
Sightings
4
Days between first and last sighting
166

Dive stats modelled within real depth limits — not measured

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SightingSeafloorSea tempDeepest dive (modelled)
Mar 14, 2009204 m—59 m
May 23, 200979 m—48 m
Aug 13, 2009454 m—148 m
Aug 27, 200999 m—67 m

Seafloor and sea temperature measured · ✳ dives modelled

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Deepest dive against the seafloor, per sighting

Seafloor · measured Deepest dive · modelled
Mar 14, 2009 — seafloor 204 m (measured), deepest dive 59 m (modelled)Mar 14May 23, 2009 — seafloor 79 m (measured), deepest dive 48 m (modelled)May 23Aug 13, 2009 — seafloor 454 m (measured), deepest dive 148 m (modelled)Aug 13Aug 27, 2009 — seafloor 99 m (measured), deepest dive 67 m (modelled)Aug 27

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

Dives

148 m
Deepest dive
4:56
Longest dive
29
Dives
30 m
Avg dive depth
4
Sightings
166
Days first → last

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Dive profile

modelled
075150148 mstartdive sequence (illustrative)

Depth shaped by the seafloor limit here (454 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 13, 2009

measured
Seafloor depth
454 m
Sea-surface temperature
—
Distance from shore
9.0 km

Across the residency · 4 sightings

measured
Seafloor depth
79 m – 454 m
Sea-surface temperature
—
Distance from shore
9.0 km – 12.0 km

Sources: GEBCO seafloor grid · 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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