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Santa Barbara Channel

CRC-18986 – Residency

1st sighting in Santa Barbara Channel
Fluke of CRC-18986
CRC-18986 Confirmed in the catalog @41659
Jun 6 – Jul 12, 2020 · Santa Barbara Channel

Santa Barbara Channel · Jun – Jul 2020

240 m
Deepest dive
8:07
Longest dive
124
Dives
Sightings
9
Days between first and last sighting
36
Deepest dive on record
240 m · this residency

Dive stats modelled within real depth limits — not measured

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SightingSeafloorSea tempDeepest dive (modelled)
Jun 6, 2020523 m—98 m
Jun 7, 2020700 m—80 m
Jun 10, 202049 m—40 m
Jun 10, 2020401 m—63 m
Jun 14, 2020384 m—74 m
Jun 15, 2020464 m—106 m
Jun 18, 2020418 m—42 m
Jun 19, 2020597 m—240 m
Jul 12, 20201,218 m—162 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 6, 2020 — seafloor 523 m (measured), deepest dive 98 m (modelled)Jun 6Jun 7, 2020 — seafloor 700 m (measured), deepest dive 80 m (modelled)Jun 7Jun 10, 2020 — seafloor 49 m (measured), deepest dive 40 m (modelled)Jun 10Jun 10, 2020 — seafloor 401 m (measured), deepest dive 63 m (modelled)Jun 10Jun 14, 2020 — seafloor 384 m (measured), deepest dive 74 m (modelled)Jun 14Jun 15, 2020 — seafloor 464 m (measured), deepest dive 106 m (modelled)Jun 15Jun 18, 2020 — seafloor 418 m (measured), deepest dive 42 m (modelled)Jun 18Jun 19, 2020 — seafloor 597 m (measured), deepest dive 240 m (modelled)Jun 19Jul 12, 2020 — seafloor 1,218 m (measured), deepest dive 162 m (modelled)Jul 12

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

Dives

240 m
Deepest dive
8:07
Longest dive
124
Dives
34 m
Avg dive depth
9
Sightings
36
Days first → last

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Dive profile

modelled
0125250240 mstartdive sequence (illustrative)

Depth shaped by the seafloor limit here (597 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 · Jun 19, 2020

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

Across the residency · 9 sightings

measured
Seafloor depth
49 m – 1,218 m
Sea-surface temperature
—
Distance from shore
3.0 km – 21.0 km

Sources: GEBCO seafloor grid · PacIOOS coastline distance

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Source records

This activity is assembled from 9 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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