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Santa Barbara Channel

Blingy – Residency

21st sighting in Santa Barbara Channel
Fluke of Blingy
Blingy Confirmed in the catalog @310
Jun 27 – Oct 5, 2024 · Santa Barbara Channel

Santa Barbara Channel · Jun – Oct 2024

113 m
Deepest dive
3:27
Longest dive
48
Dives
Sightings
4
Days between first and last sighting
100

Dive stats modelled within real depth limits — not measured

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SightingSeafloorSea tempDeepest dive (modelled)
Jun 27, 2024586 m16.7°C90 m
Jul 6, 202483 m19.4°C51 m
Oct 2, 2024331 m20.0°C113 m
Oct 5, 2024374 m21.3°C112 m

Seafloor and sea temperature measured · ✳ dives modelled

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Deepest dive against the seafloor, per sighting

Seafloor · measured Deepest dive · modelled
Jun 27, 2024 — seafloor 586 m (measured), deepest dive 90 m (modelled)Jun 27Jul 6, 2024 — seafloor 83 m (measured), deepest dive 51 m (modelled)Jul 6Oct 2, 2024 — seafloor 331 m (measured), deepest dive 113 m (modelled)Oct 2Oct 5, 2024 — seafloor 374 m (measured), deepest dive 112 m (modelled)Oct 5

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

Dives

113 m
Deepest dive
3:27
Longest dive
48
Dives
33 m
Avg dive depth
4
Sightings
100
Days first → last

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Dive profile

modelled
075150113 mstartdive sequence (illustrative)

Depth shaped by the seafloor limit here (331 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 2, 2024

measured
Seafloor depth
331 m
Sea-surface temperature
20.0°C
Distance from shore
5.0 km

Across the residency · 4 sightings

measured
Seafloor depth
83 m – 586 m
Sea-surface temperature
16.7°C – 21.3°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 4 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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