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Santa Barbara Channel

Gollum – Residency

11th sighting in Santa Barbara Channel
Fluke of Gollum
Gollum Confirmed in the catalog @2452
Jun 8 – Oct 26, 2019 · Santa Barbara Channel

Santa Barbara Channel · Jun – Oct 2019

183 m
Deepest dive
5:53
Longest dive
74
Dives
Sightings
6
Days between first and last sighting
140

Dive stats modelled within real depth limits — not measured

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SightingSeafloorSea tempDeepest dive (modelled)
Jun 8, 2019232 m16.1°C71 m
Jul 21, 2019444 m17.9°C76 m
Jul 24, 2019170 m19.1°C97 m
Aug 10, 201999 m17.5°C60 m
Aug 18, 2019330 m18.0°C67 m
Oct 26, 2019456 m20.2°C183 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 8, 2019 — seafloor 232 m (measured), deepest dive 71 m (modelled)Jun 8Jul 21, 2019 — seafloor 444 m (measured), deepest dive 76 m (modelled)Jul 21Jul 24, 2019 — seafloor 170 m (measured), deepest dive 97 m (modelled)Jul 24Aug 10, 2019 — seafloor 99 m (measured), deepest dive 60 m (modelled)Aug 10Aug 18, 2019 — seafloor 330 m (measured), deepest dive 67 m (modelled)Aug 18Oct 26, 2019 — seafloor 456 m (measured), deepest dive 183 m (modelled)Oct 26

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

Dives

183 m
Deepest dive
5:53
Longest dive
74
Dives
28 m
Avg dive depth
6
Sightings
140
Days first → last

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Dive profile

modelled
0100200183 mstartdive sequence (illustrative)

Depth shaped by the seafloor limit here (456 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 26, 2019

measured
Seafloor depth
456 m
Sea-surface temperature
20.2°C
Distance from shore
19.0 km

Across the residency · 6 sightings

measured
Seafloor depth
99 m – 456 m
Sea-surface temperature
16.1°C – 20.2°C
Distance from shore
8.0 km – 19.0 km

Sources: GEBCO seafloor grid · NASA JPL MUR sea temperature · PacIOOS coastline distance

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Source records

This activity is assembled from 6 catalogued encounters on Happywhale.

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