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Santa Barbara Channel

CRC-21591 – Residency

4th sighting in Santa Barbara Channel
Fluke of CRC-21591
CRC-21591 Confirmed in the catalog @99243
Aug 15 – Oct 5, 2025 · Santa Barbara Channel

Santa Barbara Channel · Aug – Oct 2025

159 m
Deepest dive
4:44
Longest dive
76
Dives
Sightings
5
Days between first and last sighting
51
Deepest dive on record
159 m · this residency

Dive stats modelled within real depth limits — not measured

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SightingSeafloorSea tempDeepest dive (modelled)
Aug 15, 2025510 m—50 m
Aug 16, 2025337 m—107 m
Aug 21, 2025156 m—51 m
Aug 22, 2025289 m—136 m
Oct 5, 2025893 m—159 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 15, 2025 — seafloor 510 m (measured), deepest dive 50 m (modelled)Aug 15Aug 16, 2025 — seafloor 337 m (measured), deepest dive 107 m (modelled)Aug 16Aug 21, 2025 — seafloor 156 m (measured), deepest dive 51 m (modelled)Aug 21Aug 22, 2025 — seafloor 289 m (measured), deepest dive 136 m (modelled)Aug 22Oct 5, 2025 — seafloor 893 m (measured), deepest dive 159 m (modelled)Oct 5

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

Dives

159 m
Deepest dive
4:44
Longest dive
76
Dives
30 m
Avg dive depth
5
Sightings
51
Days first → last

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Dive profile

modelled
0100200159 mstartdive sequence (illustrative)

Depth shaped by the seafloor limit here (893 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 5, 2025

measured
Seafloor depth
893 m
Sea-surface temperature
—
Distance from shore
21.0 km

Across the residency · 5 sightings

measured
Seafloor depth
156 m – 893 m
Sea-surface temperature
—
Distance from shore
10.0 km – 21.0 km

Sources: GEBCO seafloor grid · PacIOOS coastline distance

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Source records

This activity is assembled from 5 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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