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Santa Barbara Channel

Jean-Michel Cousteau – Residency

25th sighting in Santa Barbara Channel
Fluke of Jean-Michel Cousteau
Jean-Michel Cousteau Confirmed in the catalog @2450
Jul 26 – Oct 21, 2022 · Santa Barbara Channel

Santa Barbara Channel · Jul – Oct 2022

134 m
Deepest dive
5:11
Longest dive
60
Dives
Sightings
5
Days between first and last sighting
87

Dive stats modelled within real depth limits — not measured

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SightingSeafloorSea tempDeepest dive (modelled)
Jul 26, 202283 m—58 m
Sep 7, 2022586 m—47 m
Sep 7, 2022205 m—41 m
Sep 8, 2022104 m—41 m
Oct 21, 2022903 m—134 m

Seafloor and sea temperature measured · ✳ dives modelled

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Deepest dive against the seafloor, per sighting

Seafloor · measured Deepest dive · modelled
Jul 26, 2022 — seafloor 83 m (measured), deepest dive 58 m (modelled)Jul 26Sep 7, 2022 — seafloor 586 m (measured), deepest dive 47 m (modelled)Sep 7Sep 7, 2022 — seafloor 205 m (measured), deepest dive 41 m (modelled)Sep 7Sep 8, 2022 — seafloor 104 m (measured), deepest dive 41 m (modelled)Sep 8Oct 21, 2022 — seafloor 903 m (measured), deepest dive 134 m (modelled)Oct 21

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

Dives

134 m
Deepest dive
5:11
Longest dive
60
Dives
22 m
Avg dive depth
5
Sightings
87
Days first → last

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Dive profile

modelled
075150134 mstartdive sequence (illustrative)

Depth shaped by the seafloor limit here (903 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 · Oct 21, 2022

measured
Seafloor depth
903 m
Sea-surface temperature
—
Distance from shore
25.0 km

Across the residency · 5 sightings

measured
Seafloor depth
83 m – 903 m
Sea-surface temperature
—
Distance from shore
7.0 km – 25.0 km

Sources: GEBCO seafloor grid · PacIOOS coastline distance

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Source records

This activity is assembled from 5 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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