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Santa Barbara Channel

CRC-18021 – Residency

3rd sighting in Santa Barbara Channel
Fluke of CRC-18021
CRC-18021 Confirmed in the catalog @24990
Jul 11 – Sep 7, 2021 · Santa Barbara Channel

Santa Barbara Channel · Jul – Sep 2021

289 m
Deepest dive
8:08
Longest dive
34
Dives
Sightings
3
Days between first and last sighting
58
Deepest dive on record
289 m · this residency

Dive stats modelled within real depth limits — not measured

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SightingSeafloorSea tempDeepest dive (modelled)
Jul 11, 2021212 m—145 m
Sep 4, 2021451 m—98 m
Sep 7, 2021466 m—289 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 11, 2021 — seafloor 212 m (measured), deepest dive 145 m (modelled)Jul 11Sep 4, 2021 — seafloor 451 m (measured), deepest dive 98 m (modelled)Sep 4Sep 7, 2021 — seafloor 466 m (measured), deepest dive 289 m (modelled)Sep 7

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

Dives

289 m
Deepest dive
8:08
Longest dive
34
Dives
39 m
Avg dive depth
3
Sightings
58
Days first → last

Dive metrics are modelled within real depth limits — not measured

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Dive profile

modelled
0150300289 mstartdive sequence (illustrative)

Depth shaped by the seafloor limit here (466 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 · Sep 7, 2021

measured
Seafloor depth
466 m
Sea-surface temperature
—
Distance from shore
13.0 km

Across the residency · 3 sightings

measured
Seafloor depth
212 m – 466 m
Sea-surface temperature
—
Distance from shore
10.0 km – 16.0 km

Sources: GEBCO seafloor grid · PacIOOS coastline distance

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Source records

This activity is assembled from 3 catalogued encounters on Happywhale.

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