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The Southern California (SOCAL) portion of the Hawaii-Southern California Training and Testing (HSTT) area (SOCAL TR) is one of the United States Navy’s most active training areas, particularly for mid-frequency active sonar (MFAS). Much of SOCAL lies within the Southern California Bight, a productive oceanographic region that hosts a wide variety of marine species. As part of an ongoing study of the distribution and demographics of several marine mammal species within SOCAL, we conducted 32 days of survey effort from 6 January 2022 to 26 November 2022, specifically focusing on the Southern California Anti-submarine Warfare Range (SOAR).