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Santa Barbara Channel

Midnight – Residency

1st sighting in Santa Barbara Channel
Fluke of Midnight
Midnight Confirmed in the catalog @7621
Jun 27 – Aug 10, 2017 · Santa Barbara Channel

Santa Barbara Channel · Jun – Aug 2017

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Deepest dive
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Longest dive
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Dives
Sightings
8
Days between first and last sighting
44

Dive stats modelled within real depth limits — not measured

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SightingSeafloorSea tempDeepest dive (modelled)
Jun 27, 2017391 m——
Jun 29, 2017228 m——
Jul 2, 2017224 m——
Jul 3, 2017151 m——
Jul 5, 2017453 m——
Jul 6, 2017827 m——
Jul 9, 2017759 m——
Aug 10, 2017523 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 27, 2017 — seafloor 391 m (measured), deepest dive — (modelled)Jun 27Jun 29, 2017 — seafloor 228 m (measured), deepest dive — (modelled)Jun 29Jul 2, 2017 — seafloor 224 m (measured), deepest dive — (modelled)Jul 2Jul 3, 2017 — seafloor 151 m (measured), deepest dive — (modelled)Jul 3Jul 5, 2017 — seafloor 453 m (measured), deepest dive — (modelled)Jul 5Jul 6, 2017 — seafloor 827 m (measured), deepest dive — (modelled)Jul 6Jul 9, 2017 — seafloor 759 m (measured), deepest dive — (modelled)Jul 9Aug 10, 2017 — seafloor 523 m (measured), deepest dive — (modelled)Aug 10

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

Dives

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Deepest dive
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Longest dive
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Dives
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Avg dive depth
8
Sightings
44
Days first → last

Dive metrics are modelled within real depth limits — not measured

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Dive profile

modelled
02550startdive sequence (illustrative)

Modelled from the published dive-behaviour distribution. 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 10, 2017

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

Across the residency · 8 sightings

measured
Seafloor depth
151 m – 827 m
Sea-surface temperature
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Distance from shore
4.0 km – 15.0 km

Sources: GEBCO seafloor grid · PacIOOS coastline distance

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Source records

This activity is assembled from 8 catalogued encounters on Happywhale.

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