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Santa Barbara Channel

Blues Trumpet – Residency

18th sighting in Santa Barbara Channel
Fluke of Blues Trumpet
Blues Trumpet Confirmed in the catalog @28
Sep 5 – Oct 21, 2025 · Santa Barbara Channel

Santa Barbara Channel · Sep – Oct 2025

126 m
Deepest dive
5:43
Longest dive
61
Dives
Sightings
5
Days between first and last sighting
46

Dive stats modelled within real depth limits — not measured

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SightingSeafloorSea tempDeepest dive (modelled)
Sep 5, 2025579 m—126 m
Sep 6, 2025129 m—53 m
Oct 10, 202586 m—56 m
Oct 19, 2025428 m—76 m
Oct 21, 2025134 m—62 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 5, 2025 — seafloor 579 m (measured), deepest dive 126 m (modelled)Sep 5Sep 6, 2025 — seafloor 129 m (measured), deepest dive 53 m (modelled)Sep 6Oct 10, 2025 — seafloor 86 m (measured), deepest dive 56 m (modelled)Oct 10Oct 19, 2025 — seafloor 428 m (measured), deepest dive 76 m (modelled)Oct 19Oct 21, 2025 — seafloor 134 m (measured), deepest dive 62 m (modelled)Oct 21

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

Dives

126 m
Deepest dive
5:43
Longest dive
61
Dives
30 m
Avg dive depth
5
Sightings
46
Days first → last

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Dive profile

modelled
075150126 mstartdive sequence (illustrative)

Depth shaped by the seafloor limit here (579 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 5, 2025

measured
Seafloor depth
579 m
Sea-surface temperature
—
Distance from shore
19.0 km

Across the residency · 5 sightings

measured
Seafloor depth
86 m – 579 m
Sea-surface temperature
—
Distance from shore
10.0 km – 19.0 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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