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Santa Barbara Channel

CRC-21577 – Residency

4th sighting in Santa Barbara Channel
Fluke of CRC-21577
CRC-21577 Confirmed in the catalog @99219
Aug 16 – Oct 21, 2025 · Santa Barbara Channel

Santa Barbara Channel · Aug – Oct 2025

73 m
Deepest dive
2:35
Longest dive
35
Dives
Sightings
4
Days between first and last sighting
66

Dive stats modelled within real depth limits — not measured

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SightingSeafloorSea tempDeepest dive (modelled)
Aug 16, 2025431 m—54 m
Oct 21, 2025429 m—62 m
Oct 21, 2025792 m—73 m
Oct 21, 2025277 m—57 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 16, 2025 — seafloor 431 m (measured), deepest dive 54 m (modelled)Aug 16Oct 21, 2025 — seafloor 429 m (measured), deepest dive 62 m (modelled)Oct 21Oct 21, 2025 — seafloor 792 m (measured), deepest dive 73 m (modelled)Oct 21Oct 21, 2025 — seafloor 277 m (measured), deepest dive 57 m (modelled)Oct 21

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

Dives

73 m
Deepest dive
2:35
Longest dive
35
Dives
28 m
Avg dive depth
4
Sightings
66
Days first → last

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Dive profile

modelled
05010073 mstartdive sequence (illustrative)

Depth shaped by the seafloor limit here (792 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 · Oct 21, 2025

measured
Seafloor depth
792 m
Sea-surface temperature
—
Distance from shore
8.0 km

Across the residency · 4 sightings

measured
Seafloor depth
277 m – 792 m
Sea-surface temperature
—
Distance from shore
8.0 km – 17.0 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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