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Santa Barbara Channel

CRC-9012 – Residency

10th sighting in Santa Barbara Channel
Fluke of CRC-9012
CRC-9012 Confirmed in the catalog @393
Oct 18 – 20, 2024 · Santa Barbara Channel

Santa Barbara Channel · Oct 2024

168 m
Deepest dive
5:20
Longest dive
31
Dives
Sightings
3
Days between first and last sighting
2

Dive stats modelled within real depth limits — not measured

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SightingSeafloorSea tempDeepest dive (modelled)
Oct 18, 202432 m—28 m
Oct 20, 2024482 m—96 m
Oct 20, 2024186 m—168 m

Seafloor and sea temperature measured · ✳ dives modelled

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Deepest dive against the seafloor, per sighting

Seafloor · measured Deepest dive · modelled
Oct 18, 2024 — seafloor 32 m (measured), deepest dive 28 m (modelled)Oct 18Oct 20, 2024 — seafloor 482 m (measured), deepest dive 96 m (modelled)Oct 20Oct 20, 2024 — seafloor 186 m (measured), deepest dive 168 m (modelled)Oct 20

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

Dives

168 m
Deepest dive
5:20
Longest dive
31
Dives
37 m
Avg dive depth
3
Sightings
2
Days first → last

Dive metrics are modelled within real depth limits — not measured

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Dive profile

modelled
0100200168 mstartdive sequence (illustrative)

Depth shaped by the seafloor limit here (186 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 20, 2024

measured
Seafloor depth
186 m
Sea-surface temperature
—
Distance from shore
3.0 km

Across the residency · 3 sightings

measured
Seafloor depth
32 m – 482 m
Sea-surface temperature
—
Distance from shore
3.0 km – 11.0 km

Sources: GEBCO seafloor grid · PacIOOS coastline distance

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Source records

This activity is assembled from 3 catalogued encounters on Happywhale.

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