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Santa Barbara Channel

Scarlet – Residency

51st sighting in Santa Barbara Channel
Fluke of Scarlet
Scarlet Confirmed in the catalog @568
Oct 26 – 27, 2025 · Santa Barbara Channel

Same Old Familiar Waters

These channels know my scars as well as I know their currents.

74 m
Deepest dive
2:52
Longest dive
13
Dives
Sightings
2
Days between first and last sighting
1

Dive stats modelled within real depth limits — not measured

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SightingSeafloorSea tempDeepest dive (modelled)
Oct 26, 202589 m18.1°C74 m
Oct 27, 2025100 m18.4°C48 m

Seafloor and sea temperature measured · ✳ dives modelled

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Deepest dive against the seafloor, per sighting

Seafloor · measured Deepest dive · modelled
Oct 26, 2025 — seafloor 89 m (measured), deepest dive 74 m (modelled)Oct 26Oct 27, 2025 — seafloor 100 m (measured), deepest dive 48 m (modelled)Oct 27

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

Dives

74 m
Deepest dive
2:52
Longest dive
13
Dives
33 m
Avg dive depth
2
Sightings
1
Days first → last

Dive metrics are modelled within real depth limits — not measured

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Dive profile

modelled
05010074 mstartdive sequence (illustrative)

Depth shaped by the seafloor limit here (89 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 · Oct 26, 2025

measured
Seafloor depth
89 m
Sea-surface temperature
18.1°C
Distance from shore
15.0 km

Across the residency · 2 sightings

measured
Seafloor depth
89 m – 100 m
Sea-surface temperature
18.1°C – 18.4°C
Distance from shore
15.0 km – 17.0 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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