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Santa Barbara Channel

CRC-15095 – Residency

6th sighting in Santa Barbara Channel
Fluke of CRC-15095
CRC-15095 Confirmed in the catalog @70
Oct 26 – 31, 2024 · Santa Barbara Channel

October Returns

Same waters calling me back, like they always do this time of year.

214 m
Deepest dive
8:01
Longest dive
12
Dives
Sightings
2
Days between first and last sighting
5
Deepest dive on record
214 m · this residency

Dive stats modelled within real depth limits — not measured

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SightingSeafloorSea tempDeepest dive (modelled)
Oct 26, 2024586 m17.8°C214 m
Oct 31, 2024707 m18.1°C16 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, 2024 — seafloor 586 m (measured), deepest dive 214 m (modelled)Oct 26Oct 31, 2024 — seafloor 707 m (measured), deepest dive 16 m (modelled)Oct 31

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

Dives

214 m
Deepest dive
8:01
Longest dive
12
Dives
27 m
Avg dive depth
2
Sightings
5
Days first → last

Dive metrics are modelled within real depth limits — not measured

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Dive profile

modelled
0125250214 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 · Oct 26, 2024

measured
Seafloor depth
586 m
Sea-surface temperature
17.8°C
Distance from shore
15.0 km

Across the residency · 2 sightings

measured
Seafloor depth
586 m – 707 m
Sea-surface temperature
17.8°C – 18.1°C
Distance from shore
11.0 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 2 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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