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Santa Barbara Channel

Blanchette – Residency

6th sighting in Santa Barbara Channel
Fluke of Blanchette
Blanchette Confirmed in the catalog @902
Jul 8 – 26, 2025 · Santa Barbara Channel

Santa Barbara Channel · Jul 2025

92 m
Deepest dive
3:48
Longest dive
32
Dives
Sightings
3
Days between first and last sighting
18

Dive stats modelled within real depth limits — not measured

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SightingSeafloorSea tempDeepest dive (modelled)
Jul 8, 2025228 m—82 m
Jul 25, 2025586 m—57 m
Jul 26, 2025183 m—92 m

Seafloor and sea temperature measured · ✳ dives modelled

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Deepest dive against the seafloor, per sighting

Seafloor · measured Deepest dive · modelled
Jul 8, 2025 — seafloor 228 m (measured), deepest dive 82 m (modelled)Jul 8Jul 25, 2025 — seafloor 586 m (measured), deepest dive 57 m (modelled)Jul 25Jul 26, 2025 — seafloor 183 m (measured), deepest dive 92 m (modelled)Jul 26

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

Dives

92 m
Deepest dive
3:48
Longest dive
32
Dives
30 m
Avg dive depth
3
Sightings
18
Days first → last

Dive metrics are modelled within real depth limits — not measured

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Dive profile

modelled
05010092 mstartdive sequence (illustrative)

Depth shaped by the seafloor limit here (183 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 · Jul 26, 2025

measured
Seafloor depth
183 m
Sea-surface temperature
—
Distance from shore
17.0 km

Across the residency · 3 sightings

measured
Seafloor depth
183 m – 586 m
Sea-surface temperature
—
Distance from shore
10.0 km – 17.0 km

Sources: GEBCO seafloor grid · PacIOOS coastline distance

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Source records

This activity is assembled from 3 catalogued encounters on Happywhale.

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