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Santa Barbara Channel

CRC-10591 – Residency

2nd sighting in Santa Barbara Channel
Fluke of CRC-10591
CRC-10591 Confirmed in the catalog @539
May 19 – Jun 15, 2023 · Santa Barbara Channel

Channel Revisit

Same familiar waters calling me back after all these years.

65 m
Deepest dive
2:17
Longest dive
8
Dives
Sightings
2
Days between first and last sighting
27

Dive stats modelled within real depth limits — not measured

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SightingSeafloorSea tempDeepest dive (modelled)
May 19, 2023353 m15.3°C65 m
Jun 15, 2023-40 m——

Seafloor and sea temperature measured · ✳ dives modelled

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Deepest dive against the seafloor, per sighting

Seafloor · measured Deepest dive · modelled
May 19, 2023 — seafloor 353 m (measured), deepest dive 65 m (modelled)May 19Jun 15, 2023 — seafloor -40 m (measured), deepest dive — (modelled)Jun 15

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

Dives

65 m
Deepest dive
2:17
Longest dive
8
Dives
27 m
Avg dive depth
2
Sightings
27
Days first → last

Dive metrics are modelled within real depth limits — not measured

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Dive profile

modelled
05010065 mstartdive sequence (illustrative)

Depth shaped by the seafloor limit here (353 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 · May 19, 2023

measured
Seafloor depth
353 m
Sea-surface temperature
15.3°C
Distance from shore
12.0 km

Across the residency · 2 sightings

measured
Seafloor depth
-40 m – 353 m
Sea-surface temperature
15.3°C
Distance from shore
2.0 km – 12.0 km

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

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Source records

This activity is assembled from 2 catalogued encounters on Happywhale.

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