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Santa Barbara Channel

CRC-19959 – Residency

6th sighting in Santa Barbara Channel
Fluke of CRC-19959
CRC-19959 Confirmed in the catalog @61125
Sep 10 – Nov 10, 2025 · Santa Barbara Channel

Santa Barbara Channel · Sep – Nov 2025

119 m
Deepest dive
4:32
Longest dive
77
Dives
Sightings
9
Days between first and last sighting
61

Dive stats modelled within real depth limits — not measured

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SightingSeafloorSea tempDeepest dive (modelled)
Sep 10, 2025134 m20.4°C111 m
Sep 21, 2025279 m20.4°C59 m
Sep 22, 2025228 m20.0°C21 m
Oct 5, 2025855 m20.2°C119 m
Oct 5, 2025749 m19.8°C56 m
Nov 1, 202549 m20.2°C27 m
Nov 7, 2025599 m19.3°C92 m
Nov 8, 2025445 m19.1°C69 m
Nov 10, 202532 m18.8°C29 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 10, 2025 — seafloor 134 m (measured), deepest dive 111 m (modelled)Sep 10Sep 21, 2025 — seafloor 279 m (measured), deepest dive 59 m (modelled)Sep 21Sep 22, 2025 — seafloor 228 m (measured), deepest dive 21 m (modelled)Sep 22Oct 5, 2025 — seafloor 855 m (measured), deepest dive 119 m (modelled)Oct 5Oct 5, 2025 — seafloor 749 m (measured), deepest dive 56 m (modelled)Oct 5Nov 1, 2025 — seafloor 49 m (measured), deepest dive 27 m (modelled)Nov 1Nov 7, 2025 — seafloor 599 m (measured), deepest dive 92 m (modelled)Nov 7Nov 8, 2025 — seafloor 445 m (measured), deepest dive 69 m (modelled)Nov 8Nov 10, 2025 — seafloor 32 m (measured), deepest dive 29 m (modelled)Nov 10

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

Dives

119 m
Deepest dive
4:32
Longest dive
77
Dives
23 m
Avg dive depth
9
Sightings
61
Days first → last

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Dive profile

modelled
075150119 mstartdive sequence (illustrative)

Depth shaped by the seafloor limit here (855 m) and the published dive-behaviour distribution. Modelled, not measured.

Deep Effort Score

Deep

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Place

Where this happened · Oct 5, 2025

measured
Seafloor depth
855 m
Sea-surface temperature
20.2°C
Distance from shore
26.0 km

Across the residency · 9 sightings

measured
Seafloor depth
32 m – 855 m
Sea-surface temperature
18.8°C – 20.4°C
Distance from shore
3.0 km – 26.0 km

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

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Source records

This activity is assembled from 9 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.

The photographs and fluke identifications behind every sighting are the work of the contributing observers — the citizen scientists, naturalists and operators who logged them, each named in the underlying GBIF occurrence record. Every activity links out to its source encounters on Happywhale. Basemaps © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL).

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