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Santa Barbara Channel

2020-2021 calf of Chompers – Residency

6th sighting in Santa Barbara Channel
Fluke of 2020-2021 calf of Chompers
2020-2021 calf of Chompers Confirmed in the catalog @62844
Jun 11 – Oct 26, 2021 · Santa Barbara Channel

Santa Barbara Channel · Jun – Oct 2021

128 m
Deepest dive
5:04
Longest dive
116
Dives
Sightings
9
Days between first and last sighting
137

Dive stats modelled within real depth limits — not measured

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SightingSeafloorSea tempDeepest dive (modelled)
Jun 11, 2021578 m—72 m
Jun 26, 2021118 m—49 m
Jul 15, 2021156 m—80 m
Aug 13, 2021313 m—123 m
Aug 14, 2021251 m—120 m
Aug 14, 2021201 m—56 m
Sep 7, 2021192 m—128 m
Oct 10, 2021244 m—117 m
Oct 26, 2021449 m—113 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 11, 2021 — seafloor 578 m (measured), deepest dive 72 m (modelled)Jun 11Jun 26, 2021 — seafloor 118 m (measured), deepest dive 49 m (modelled)Jun 26Jul 15, 2021 — seafloor 156 m (measured), deepest dive 80 m (modelled)Jul 15Aug 13, 2021 — seafloor 313 m (measured), deepest dive 123 m (modelled)Aug 13Aug 14, 2021 — seafloor 251 m (measured), deepest dive 120 m (modelled)Aug 14Aug 14, 2021 — seafloor 201 m (measured), deepest dive 56 m (modelled)Aug 14Sep 7, 2021 — seafloor 192 m (measured), deepest dive 128 m (modelled)Sep 7Oct 10, 2021 — seafloor 244 m (measured), deepest dive 117 m (modelled)Oct 10Oct 26, 2021 — seafloor 449 m (measured), deepest dive 113 m (modelled)Oct 26

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

Dives

128 m
Deepest dive
5:04
Longest dive
116
Dives
30 m
Avg dive depth
9
Sightings
137
Days first → last

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Dive profile

modelled
075150128 mstartdive sequence (illustrative)

Depth shaped by the seafloor limit here (192 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 · Sep 7, 2021

measured
Seafloor depth
192 m
Sea-surface temperature
—
Distance from shore
5.0 km

Across the residency · 9 sightings

measured
Seafloor depth
118 m – 578 m
Sea-surface temperature
—
Distance from shore
4.0 km – 16.0 km

Sources: GEBCO seafloor grid · 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.

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