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Santa Barbara Channel

Midnight – Residency

2nd sighting in Santa Barbara Channel
Fluke of Midnight
Midnight Confirmed in the catalog @7621
Aug 15 – Dec 10, 2019 · Santa Barbara Channel

Santa Barbara Channel · Aug – Dec 2019

299 m
Deepest dive
11:45
Longest dive
53
Dives
Sightings
4
Days between first and last sighting
117

Dive stats modelled within real depth limits — not measured

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SightingSeafloorSea tempDeepest dive (modelled)
Aug 15, 2019347 m—299 m
Nov 10, 2019400 m—115 m
Dec 10, 2019787 m—295 m
Dec 10, 201959 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
Aug 15, 2019 — seafloor 347 m (measured), deepest dive 299 m (modelled)Aug 15Nov 10, 2019 — seafloor 400 m (measured), deepest dive 115 m (modelled)Nov 10Dec 10, 2019 — seafloor 787 m (measured), deepest dive 295 m (modelled)Dec 10Dec 10, 2019 — seafloor 59 m (measured), deepest dive 47 m (modelled)Dec 10

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

Dives

299 m
Deepest dive
11:45
Longest dive
53
Dives
42 m
Avg dive depth
4
Sightings
117
Days first → last

Dive metrics are modelled within real depth limits — not measured

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Dive profile

modelled
0150300299 mstartdive sequence (illustrative)

Depth shaped by the seafloor limit here (347 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 15, 2019

measured
Seafloor depth
347 m
Sea-surface temperature
—
Distance from shore
14.0 km

Across the residency · 4 sightings

measured
Seafloor depth
59 m – 787 m
Sea-surface temperature
—
Distance from shore
8.0 km – 16.0 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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