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Santa Barbara Channel

CRC-12389 – Residency

9th sighting in Santa Barbara Channel
Fluke of CRC-12389
CRC-12389 Confirmed in the catalog @2524
Jul 12 – Oct 18, 2025 · Santa Barbara Channel

Santa Barbara Channel · Jul – Oct 2025

121 m
Deepest dive
5:25
Longest dive
39
Dives
Sightings
5
Days between first and last sighting
98
Deepest dive on record
121 m · this residency

Dive stats modelled within real depth limits — not measured

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SightingSeafloorSea tempDeepest dive (modelled)
Jul 12, 2025312 m—96 m
Jul 26, 2025183 m—99 m
Jul 27, 2025231 m—60 m
Jul 28, 2025183 m—29 m
Oct 18, 2025146 m—121 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 12, 2025 — seafloor 312 m (measured), deepest dive 96 m (modelled)Jul 12Jul 26, 2025 — seafloor 183 m (measured), deepest dive 99 m (modelled)Jul 26Jul 27, 2025 — seafloor 231 m (measured), deepest dive 60 m (modelled)Jul 27Jul 28, 2025 — seafloor 183 m (measured), deepest dive 29 m (modelled)Jul 28Oct 18, 2025 — seafloor 146 m (measured), deepest dive 121 m (modelled)Oct 18

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

Dives

121 m
Deepest dive
5:25
Longest dive
39
Dives
26 m
Avg dive depth
5
Sightings
98
Days first → last

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Dive profile

modelled
075150121 mstartdive sequence (illustrative)

Depth shaped by the seafloor limit here (146 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 18, 2025

measured
Seafloor depth
146 m
Sea-surface temperature
—
Distance from shore
6.0 km

Across the residency · 5 sightings

measured
Seafloor depth
146 m – 312 m
Sea-surface temperature
—
Distance from shore
6.0 km – 17.0 km

Sources: GEBCO seafloor grid · PacIOOS coastline distance

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Source records

This activity is assembled from 5 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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