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Santa Barbara Channel

Train Wreck – Residency

2nd sighting in Santa Barbara Channel
Fluke of Train Wreck
Train Wreck Confirmed in the catalog @251
Sep 28 – Nov 22, 2024 · Santa Barbara Channel

Santa Barbara Sojourn

Been hanging around these familiar waters, something keeps pulling me back here.

163 m
Deepest dive
5:43
Longest dive
63
Dives
Sightings
3
Days between first and last sighting
55

Dive stats modelled within real depth limits — not measured

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SightingSeafloorSea tempDeepest dive (modelled)
Sep 28, 2024567 m15.7°C163 m
Oct 13, 2024258 m18.4°C116 m
Nov 22, 2024201 m14.1°C72 m

Seafloor and sea temperature measured · ✳ dives modelled

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Deepest dive against the seafloor, per sighting

Seafloor · measured Deepest dive · modelled
Sep 28, 2024 — seafloor 567 m (measured), deepest dive 163 m (modelled)Sep 28Oct 13, 2024 — seafloor 258 m (measured), deepest dive 116 m (modelled)Oct 13Nov 22, 2024 — seafloor 201 m (measured), deepest dive 72 m (modelled)Nov 22

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

Dives

163 m
Deepest dive
5:43
Longest dive
63
Dives
29 m
Avg dive depth
3
Sightings
55
Days first → last

Dive metrics are modelled within real depth limits — not measured

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Dive profile

modelled
0100200163 mstartdive sequence (illustrative)

Depth shaped by the seafloor limit here (567 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 28, 2024

measured
Seafloor depth
567 m
Sea-surface temperature
15.7°C
Distance from shore
16.0 km

Across the residency · 3 sightings

measured
Seafloor depth
201 m – 567 m
Sea-surface temperature
14.1°C – 18.4°C
Distance from shore
14.0 km – 16.0 km

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

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Source records

This activity is assembled from 3 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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