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Santa Barbara Channel

Pearl – Residency

5th sighting in Santa Barbara Channel
Fluke of Pearl
Pearl Confirmed in the catalog @7015
Jun 2 – Aug 11, 2019 · Santa Barbara Channel

Santa Barbara Channel · Jun – Aug 2019

189 m
Deepest dive
5:50
Longest dive
6
Dives
Sightings
4
Days between first and last sighting
70

Dive stats modelled within real depth limits — not measured

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SightingSeafloorSea tempDeepest dive (modelled)
Jun 2, 2019336 m——
Jun 14, 2019384 m——
Aug 1, 2019420 m——
Aug 11, 2019241 m—189 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 2, 2019 — seafloor 336 m (measured), deepest dive — (modelled)Jun 2Jun 14, 2019 — seafloor 384 m (measured), deepest dive — (modelled)Jun 14Aug 1, 2019 — seafloor 420 m (measured), deepest dive — (modelled)Aug 1Aug 11, 2019 — seafloor 241 m (measured), deepest dive 189 m (modelled)Aug 11

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

Dives

189 m
Deepest dive
5:50
Longest dive
6
Dives
46 m
Avg dive depth
4
Sightings
70
Days first → last

Dive metrics are modelled within real depth limits — not measured

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Dive profile

modelled
0100200189 mstartdive sequence (illustrative)

Depth shaped by the seafloor limit here (241 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 · Aug 11, 2019

measured
Seafloor depth
241 m
Sea-surface temperature
—
Distance from shore
11.0 km

Across the residency · 4 sightings

measured
Seafloor depth
241 m – 420 m
Sea-surface temperature
—
Distance from shore
9.0 km – 17.0 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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