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Santa Barbara Channel

Stump – Residency

48th sighting in Santa Barbara Channel
Fluke of Stump
Stump Confirmed in the catalog @559
Sep 16 – Nov 19, 2017 · Santa Barbara Channel

Santa Barbara Channel · Sep – Nov 2017

195 m
Deepest dive
5:45
Longest dive
34
Dives
Sightings
3
Days between first and last sighting
64

Dive stats modelled within real depth limits — not measured

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SightingSeafloorSea tempDeepest dive (modelled)
Sep 16, 2017247 m19.4°C36 m
Nov 18, 2017586 m15.9°C195 m
Nov 19, 2017176 m16.1°C99 m

Seafloor and sea temperature measured · ✳ dives modelled

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Deepest dive against the seafloor, per sighting

Seafloor · measured Deepest dive · modelled
Sep 16, 2017 — seafloor 247 m (measured), deepest dive 36 m (modelled)Sep 16Nov 18, 2017 — seafloor 586 m (measured), deepest dive 195 m (modelled)Nov 18Nov 19, 2017 — seafloor 176 m (measured), deepest dive 99 m (modelled)Nov 19

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

Dives

195 m
Deepest dive
5:45
Longest dive
34
Dives
37 m
Avg dive depth
3
Sightings
64
Days first → last

Dive metrics are modelled within real depth limits — not measured

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Dive profile

modelled
0100200195 mstartdive sequence (illustrative)

Depth shaped by the seafloor limit here (586 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 · Nov 18, 2017

measured
Seafloor depth
586 m
Sea-surface temperature
15.9°C
Distance from shore
15.0 km

Across the residency · 3 sightings

measured
Seafloor depth
176 m – 586 m
Sea-surface temperature
15.9°C – 19.4°C
Distance from shore
6.0 km – 15.0 km

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

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Source records

This activity is assembled from 3 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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