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Santa Barbara Channel

Comet – Residency

7th sighting in Santa Barbara Channel
Fluke of Comet
Comet Confirmed in the catalog @4773
Jun 29 – Jul 13, 2019 · Santa Barbara Channel

Santa Barbara Channel · Jun – Jul 2019

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Deepest dive
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Longest dive
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Dives
Sightings
3
Days between first and last sighting
14

Dive stats modelled within real depth limits — not measured

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SightingSeafloorSea tempDeepest dive (modelled)
Jun 29, 2019222 m——
Jul 11, 2019157 m——
Jul 13, 201984 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 29, 2019 — seafloor 222 m (measured), deepest dive — (modelled)Jun 29Jul 11, 2019 — seafloor 157 m (measured), deepest dive — (modelled)Jul 11Jul 13, 2019 — seafloor 84 m (measured), deepest dive — (modelled)Jul 13

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
3
Sightings
14
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 · Jul 13, 2019

measured
Seafloor depth
84 m
Sea-surface temperature
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Distance from shore
15.0 km

Across the residency · 3 sightings

measured
Seafloor depth
84 m – 222 m
Sea-surface temperature
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Distance from shore
14.0 km – 15.0 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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