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Santa Barbara Channel

CRC-9029 – Residency

11th sighting in Santa Barbara Channel
Fluke of CRC-9029
CRC-9029 Confirmed in the catalog @2503
Aug 23 – Oct 15, 2020 · Santa Barbara Channel

Santa Barbara Channel · Aug – Oct 2020

165 m
Deepest dive
4:40
Longest dive
46
Dives
Sightings
2
Days between first and last sighting
54

Dive stats modelled within real depth limits — not measured

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SightingSeafloorSea tempDeepest dive (modelled)
Aug 23, 202027 m16.9°C21 m
Oct 15, 2020309 m20.5°C165 m

Seafloor and sea temperature measured · ✳ dives modelled

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Deepest dive against the seafloor, per sighting

Seafloor · measured Deepest dive · modelled
Aug 23, 2020 — seafloor 27 m (measured), deepest dive 21 m (modelled)Aug 23Oct 15, 2020 — seafloor 309 m (measured), deepest dive 165 m (modelled)Oct 15

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

Dives

165 m
Deepest dive
4:40
Longest dive
46
Dives
26 m
Avg dive depth
2
Sightings
54
Days first → last

Dive metrics are modelled within real depth limits — not measured

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Dive profile

modelled
0100200165 mstartdive sequence (illustrative)

Depth shaped by the seafloor limit here (309 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 15, 2020

measured
Seafloor depth
309 m
Sea-surface temperature
20.5°C
Distance from shore
15.0 km

Across the residency · 2 sightings

measured
Seafloor depth
27 m – 309 m
Sea-surface temperature
16.9°C – 20.5°C
Distance from shore
1.0 km – 15.0 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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