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Santa Barbara Channel

CRC-21405 – Residency

13th sighting in Santa Barbara Channel
Fluke of CRC-21405
CRC-21405 Confirmed in the catalog @93958
May 18 – Nov 2, 2024 · Santa Barbara Channel

Santa Barbara Channel · May – Nov 2024

156 m
Deepest dive
5:11
Longest dive
164
Dives
Sightings
9
Days between first and last sighting
168

Dive stats modelled within real depth limits — not measured

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SightingSeafloorSea tempDeepest dive (modelled)
May 18, 2024263 m—96 m
May 24, 2024230 m—156 m
Aug 1, 202433 m—30 m
Aug 17, 202459 m—52 m
Aug 18, 2024586 m—67 m
Oct 2, 2024175 m—69 m
Oct 25, 2024586 m—49 m
Oct 29, 2024586 m—50 m
Nov 2, 2024146 m—129 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 263 m (measured), deepest dive 96 m (modelled)May 18May 24, 2024 — seafloor 230 m (measured), deepest dive 156 m (modelled)May 24Aug 1, 2024 — seafloor 33 m (measured), deepest dive 30 m (modelled)Aug 1Aug 17, 2024 — seafloor 59 m (measured), deepest dive 52 m (modelled)Aug 17Aug 18, 2024 — seafloor 586 m (measured), deepest dive 67 m (modelled)Aug 18Oct 2, 2024 — seafloor 175 m (measured), deepest dive 69 m (modelled)Oct 2Oct 25, 2024 — seafloor 586 m (measured), deepest dive 49 m (modelled)Oct 25Oct 29, 2024 — seafloor 586 m (measured), deepest dive 50 m (modelled)Oct 29Nov 2, 2024 — seafloor 146 m (measured), deepest dive 129 m (modelled)Nov 2

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

Dives

156 m
Deepest dive
5:11
Longest dive
164
Dives
28 m
Avg dive depth
9
Sightings
168
Days first → last

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Dive profile

modelled
0100200156 mstartdive sequence (illustrative)

Depth shaped by the seafloor limit here (230 m) and the published dive-behaviour distribution. Modelled, not measured.

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Deep

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Place

Where this happened · May 24, 2024

measured
Seafloor depth
230 m
Sea-surface temperature
—
Distance from shore
5.0 km

Across the residency · 9 sightings

measured
Seafloor depth
33 m – 586 m
Sea-surface temperature
—
Distance from shore
1.0 km – 15.0 km

Sources: GEBCO seafloor grid · PacIOOS coastline distance

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Source records

This activity is assembled from 9 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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