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Santa Barbara Channel

Wally – Residency

4th sighting in Santa Barbara Channel
Fluke of Wally
Wally Confirmed in the catalog @65251
Jun 29 – Sep 8, 2021 · Santa Barbara Channel

Santa Barbara Channel · Jun – Sep 2021

47 m
Deepest dive
2:24
Longest dive
44
Dives
Sightings
4
Days between first and last sighting
71

Dive stats modelled within real depth limits — not measured

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SightingSeafloorSea tempDeepest dive (modelled)
Jun 29, 202115 m—14 m
Jul 9, 202129 m—17 m
Aug 20, 2021209 m—42 m
Sep 8, 2021187 m—47 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 29, 2021 — seafloor 15 m (measured), deepest dive 14 m (modelled)Jun 29Jul 9, 2021 — seafloor 29 m (measured), deepest dive 17 m (modelled)Jul 9Aug 20, 2021 — seafloor 209 m (measured), deepest dive 42 m (modelled)Aug 20Sep 8, 2021 — seafloor 187 m (measured), deepest dive 47 m (modelled)Sep 8

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

Dives

47 m
Deepest dive
2:24
Longest dive
44
Dives
16 m
Avg dive depth
4
Sightings
71
Days first → last

Dive metrics are modelled within real depth limits — not measured

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Dive profile

modelled
0255047 mstartdive sequence (illustrative)

Depth shaped by the seafloor limit here (187 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 8, 2021

measured
Seafloor depth
187 m
Sea-surface temperature
—
Distance from shore
15.0 km

Across the residency · 4 sightings

measured
Seafloor depth
15 m – 209 m
Sea-surface temperature
—
Distance from shore
2.0 km – 15.0 km

Sources: GEBCO seafloor grid · PacIOOS coastline distance

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Source records

This activity is assembled from 4 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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