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Santa Barbara Channel

CRC-12217 – Residency

3rd sighting in Santa Barbara Channel
Fluke of CRC-12217
CRC-12217 Confirmed in the catalog @2433
Mar 8 – 27, 2009 · Santa Barbara Channel

Santa Barbara Channel · Mar 2009

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Deepest dive
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Longest dive
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Dives
Sightings
3
Days between first and last sighting
19

Dive stats modelled within real depth limits — not measured

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SightingSeafloorSea tempDeepest dive (modelled)
Mar 8, 2009297 m——
Mar 16, 2009135 m——
Mar 27, 2009214 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 8, 2009 — seafloor 297 m (measured), deepest dive — (modelled)Mar 8Mar 16, 2009 — seafloor 135 m (measured), deepest dive — (modelled)Mar 16Mar 27, 2009 — seafloor 214 m (measured), deepest dive — (modelled)Mar 27

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

Dives

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Deepest dive
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Longest dive
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Dives
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Avg dive depth
3
Sightings
19
Days first → last

Dive metrics are modelled within real depth limits — not measured

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Dive profile

modelled
02550startdive sequence (illustrative)

Modelled from the published dive-behaviour distribution. 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 · Mar 27, 2009

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

Across the residency · 3 sightings

measured
Seafloor depth
135 m – 297 m
Sea-surface temperature
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Distance from shore
6.0 km – 13.0 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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