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Santa Barbara Channel

CRC-20731 – Residency

6th sighting in Santa Barbara Channel
Fluke of CRC-20731
CRC-20731 Confirmed in the catalog @82307
May 18 – Nov 1, 2024 · Santa Barbara Channel

Santa Barbara Channel · May – Nov 2024

171 m
Deepest dive
5:02
Longest dive
158
Dives
Sightings
10
Days between first and last sighting
167
Deepest dive on record
171 m · this residency

Dive stats modelled within real depth limits — not measured

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SightingSeafloorSea tempDeepest dive (modelled)
May 18, 2024190 m—124 m
May 24, 2024230 m—121 m
Jul 16, 202471 m—31 m
Oct 4, 202459 m—39 m
Oct 5, 202458 m—52 m
Oct 5, 2024490 m—158 m
Oct 26, 2024865 m—171 m
Oct 26, 2024509 m—153 m
Oct 26, 2024888 m—36 m
Nov 1, 2024374 m—56 m

Seafloor and sea temperature measured · ✳ dives modelled

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Deepest dive against the seafloor, per sighting

Seafloor · measured Deepest dive · modelled
May 18, 2024 — seafloor 190 m (measured), deepest dive 124 m (modelled)May 18May 24, 2024 — seafloor 230 m (measured), deepest dive 121 m (modelled)May 24Jul 16, 2024 — seafloor 71 m (measured), deepest dive 31 m (modelled)Jul 16Oct 4, 2024 — seafloor 59 m (measured), deepest dive 39 m (modelled)Oct 4Oct 5, 2024 — seafloor 58 m (measured), deepest dive 52 m (modelled)Oct 5Oct 5, 2024 — seafloor 490 m (measured), deepest dive 158 m (modelled)Oct 5Oct 26, 2024 — seafloor 865 m (measured), deepest dive 171 m (modelled)Oct 26Oct 26, 2024 — seafloor 509 m (measured), deepest dive 153 m (modelled)Oct 26Oct 26, 2024 — seafloor 888 m (measured), deepest dive 36 m (modelled)Oct 26Nov 1, 2024 — seafloor 374 m (measured), deepest dive 56 m (modelled)Nov 1

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

Dives

171 m
Deepest dive
5:02
Longest dive
158
Dives
24 m
Avg dive depth
10
Sightings
167
Days first → last

Dive metrics are modelled within real depth limits — not measured

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Dive profile

modelled
0100200171 mstartdive sequence (illustrative)

Depth shaped by the seafloor limit here (865 m) and the published dive-behaviour distribution. Modelled, not measured.

Deep Effort Score

Deep

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Place

Where this happened · Oct 26, 2024

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

Across the residency · 10 sightings

measured
Seafloor depth
58 m – 888 m
Sea-surface temperature
—
Distance from shore
2.0 km – 18.0 km

Sources: GEBCO seafloor grid · PacIOOS coastline distance

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Source records

This activity is assembled from 10 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.

The photographs and fluke identifications behind every sighting are the work of the contributing observers — the citizen scientists, naturalists and operators who logged them, each named in the underlying GBIF occurrence record. Every activity links out to its source encounters on Happywhale. Basemaps © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL).

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