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Santa Barbara Channel

CRC-16098 – Residency

9th sighting in Santa Barbara Channel
Fluke of CRC-16098
CRC-16098 Confirmed in the catalog @7050
Oct 10 – Nov 28, 2025 · Santa Barbara Channel

Santa Barbara Channel · Oct – Nov 2025

209 m
Deepest dive
5:20
Longest dive
22
Dives
Sightings
4
Days between first and last sighting
49
Deepest dive on record
209 m · this residency

Dive stats modelled within real depth limits — not measured

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SightingSeafloorSea tempDeepest dive (modelled)
Oct 10, 202582 m—31 m
Oct 16, 2025311 m—209 m
Oct 19, 2025197 m—31 m
Nov 28, 2025191 m—45 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 10, 2025 — seafloor 82 m (measured), deepest dive 31 m (modelled)Oct 10Oct 16, 2025 — seafloor 311 m (measured), deepest dive 209 m (modelled)Oct 16Oct 19, 2025 — seafloor 197 m (measured), deepest dive 31 m (modelled)Oct 19Nov 28, 2025 — seafloor 191 m (measured), deepest dive 45 m (modelled)Nov 28

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

Dives

209 m
Deepest dive
5:20
Longest dive
22
Dives
36 m
Avg dive depth
4
Sightings
49
Days first → last

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Dive profile

modelled
0125250209 mstartdive sequence (illustrative)

Depth shaped by the seafloor limit here (311 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 16, 2025

measured
Seafloor depth
311 m
Sea-surface temperature
—
Distance from shore
13.0 km

Across the residency · 4 sightings

measured
Seafloor depth
82 m – 311 m
Sea-surface temperature
—
Distance from shore
4.0 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.

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