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Santa Barbara Channel

Gollum – Residency

5th sighting in Santa Barbara Channel
Fluke of Gollum
Gollum Confirmed in the catalog @2452
Jun 3 – 25, 2010 · Santa Barbara Channel

Santa Barbara Channel · Jun 2010

240 m
Deepest dive
9:43
Longest dive
38
Dives
Sightings
2
Days between first and last sighting
22
Deepest dive on record
240 m · this residency

Dive stats modelled within real depth limits — not measured

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SightingSeafloorSea tempDeepest dive (modelled)
Jun 3, 2010473 m13.8°C240 m
Jun 25, 201013 m16.9°C11 m

Seafloor and sea temperature measured · ✳ dives modelled

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Deepest dive against the seafloor, per sighting

Seafloor · measured Deepest dive · modelled
Jun 3, 2010 — seafloor 473 m (measured), deepest dive 240 m (modelled)Jun 3Jun 25, 2010 — seafloor 13 m (measured), deepest dive 11 m (modelled)Jun 25

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

Dives

240 m
Deepest dive
9:43
Longest dive
38
Dives
24 m
Avg dive depth
2
Sightings
22
Days first → last

Dive metrics are modelled within real depth limits — not measured

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Dive profile

modelled
0125250240 mstartdive sequence (illustrative)

Depth shaped by the seafloor limit here (473 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 · Jun 3, 2010

measured
Seafloor depth
473 m
Sea-surface temperature
13.8°C
Distance from shore
13.0 km

Across the residency · 2 sightings

measured
Seafloor depth
13 m – 473 m
Sea-surface temperature
13.8°C – 16.9°C
Distance from shore
13.0 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.

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