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Santa Barbara Channel

CRC-16571 – Residency

1st sighting in Santa Barbara Channel
Fluke of CRC-16571
CRC-16571 Confirmed in the catalog @3968
Dec 8 – 29, 2017 · Santa Barbara Channel

Santa Barbara Channel · Dec 2017

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Deepest dive
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Longest dive
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Dives
Sightings
7
Days between first and last sighting
21

Dive stats modelled within real depth limits — not measured

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SightingSeafloorSea tempDeepest dive (modelled)
Dec 8, 2017556 m17.4°C—
Dec 9, 2017405 m17.5°C—
Dec 15, 2017887 m17.4°C—
Dec 18, 2017493 m17.1°C—
Dec 20, 2017347 m17.5°C—
Dec 26, 2017146 m15.5°C—
Dec 29, 2017789 m16.7°C—

Seafloor and sea temperature measured · ✳ dives modelled

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Deepest dive against the seafloor, per sighting

Seafloor · measured Deepest dive · modelled
Dec 8, 2017 — seafloor 556 m (measured), deepest dive — (modelled)Dec 8Dec 9, 2017 — seafloor 405 m (measured), deepest dive — (modelled)Dec 9Dec 15, 2017 — seafloor 887 m (measured), deepest dive — (modelled)Dec 15Dec 18, 2017 — seafloor 493 m (measured), deepest dive — (modelled)Dec 18Dec 20, 2017 — seafloor 347 m (measured), deepest dive — (modelled)Dec 20Dec 26, 2017 — seafloor 146 m (measured), deepest dive — (modelled)Dec 26Dec 29, 2017 — seafloor 789 m (measured), deepest dive — (modelled)Dec 29

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

Dives

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Deepest dive
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Longest dive
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Dives
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Avg dive depth
7
Sightings
21
Days first → last

Dive metrics are modelled within real depth limits — not measured

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Dive profile

modelled
02550startdive sequence (illustrative)

Modelled from the published dive-behaviour distribution. 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 · Dec 29, 2017

measured
Seafloor depth
789 m
Sea-surface temperature
16.7°C
Distance from shore
14.0 km

Across the residency · 7 sightings

measured
Seafloor depth
146 m – 887 m
Sea-surface temperature
15.5°C – 17.5°C
Distance from shore
4.0 km – 18.0 km

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

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Source records

This activity is assembled from 7 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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