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Santa Barbara Channel

Comet – Residency

4th sighting in Santa Barbara Channel
Fluke of Comet
Comet Confirmed in the catalog @4773
Jun 17 – Sep 22, 2018 · Santa Barbara Channel

Santa Barbara Channel · Jun – Sep 2018

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Deepest dive
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Longest dive
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Dives
Sightings
5
Days between first and last sighting
97

Dive stats modelled within real depth limits — not measured

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SightingSeafloorSea tempDeepest dive (modelled)
Jun 17, 2018904 m——
Jul 21, 2018495 m——
Aug 9, 2018226 m——
Aug 16, 2018305 m——
Sep 22, 2018112 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 17, 2018 — seafloor 904 m (measured), deepest dive — (modelled)Jun 17Jul 21, 2018 — seafloor 495 m (measured), deepest dive — (modelled)Jul 21Aug 9, 2018 — seafloor 226 m (measured), deepest dive — (modelled)Aug 9Aug 16, 2018 — seafloor 305 m (measured), deepest dive — (modelled)Aug 16Sep 22, 2018 — seafloor 112 m (measured), deepest dive — (modelled)Sep 22

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
5
Sightings
97
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 · Sep 22, 2018

measured
Seafloor depth
112 m
Sea-surface temperature
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Distance from shore
6.0 km

Across the residency · 5 sightings

measured
Seafloor depth
112 m – 904 m
Sea-surface temperature
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Distance from shore
4.0 km – 28.0 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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