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Santa Barbara Channel

CRC-21405 – Residency

4th sighting in Santa Barbara Channel
Fluke of CRC-21405
CRC-21405 Confirmed in the catalog @93958
Mar 17 – Sep 10, 2023 · Santa Barbara Channel

Santa Barbara Channel · Mar – Sep 2023

260 m
Deepest dive
8:40
Longest dive
122
Dives
Sightings
14
Days between first and last sighting
177
Deepest dive on record
260 m · this residency

Dive stats modelled within real depth limits — not measured

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SightingSeafloorSea tempDeepest dive (modelled)
Mar 17, 202389 m—19 m
Mar 18, 2023410 m—22 m
Mar 28, 202390 m—68 m
Mar 29, 202380 m—74 m
Apr 1, 2023133 m—44 m
Apr 5, 202394 m—35 m
Apr 6, 2023101 m—54 m
Apr 7, 202383 m—67 m
May 12, 202359 m—42 m
May 12, 2023781 m—260 m
May 31, 2023586 m—73 m
Jul 6, 2023282 m—62 m
Jul 29, 2023431 m—132 m
Sep 10, 2023475 m—67 m

Seafloor and sea temperature measured · ✳ dives modelled

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Deepest dive against the seafloor, per sighting

Seafloor · measured Deepest dive · modelled
Mar 17, 2023 — seafloor 89 m (measured), deepest dive 19 m (modelled)Mar 17Mar 18, 2023 — seafloor 410 m (measured), deepest dive 22 m (modelled)Mar 28, 2023 — seafloor 90 m (measured), deepest dive 68 m (modelled)Mar 29, 2023 — seafloor 80 m (measured), deepest dive 74 m (modelled)Mar 29Apr 1, 2023 — seafloor 133 m (measured), deepest dive 44 m (modelled)Apr 5, 2023 — seafloor 94 m (measured), deepest dive 35 m (modelled)Apr 6, 2023 — seafloor 101 m (measured), deepest dive 54 m (modelled)Apr 6Apr 7, 2023 — seafloor 83 m (measured), deepest dive 67 m (modelled)May 12, 2023 — seafloor 59 m (measured), deepest dive 42 m (modelled)May 12, 2023 — seafloor 781 m (measured), deepest dive 260 m (modelled)May 12May 31, 2023 — seafloor 586 m (measured), deepest dive 73 m (modelled)Jul 6, 2023 — seafloor 282 m (measured), deepest dive 62 m (modelled)Jul 29, 2023 — seafloor 431 m (measured), deepest dive 132 m (modelled)Jul 29Sep 10, 2023 — seafloor 475 m (measured), deepest dive 67 m (modelled)

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

Dives

260 m
Deepest dive
8:40
Longest dive
122
Dives
25 m
Avg dive depth
14
Sightings
177
Days first → last

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Dive profile

modelled
0150300260 mstartdive sequence (illustrative)

Depth shaped by the seafloor limit here (781 m) and the published dive-behaviour distribution. Modelled, not measured.

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Place

Where this happened · May 12, 2023

measured
Seafloor depth
781 m
Sea-surface temperature
—
Distance from shore
30.0 km

Across the residency · 14 sightings

measured
Seafloor depth
59 m – 781 m
Sea-surface temperature
—
Distance from shore
4.0 km – 30.0 km

Sources: GEBCO seafloor grid · PacIOOS coastline distance

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Source records

This activity is assembled from 14 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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