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Au'au Channel

HW-MN0440021 – Residency

16th sighting in Au'au Channel
Fluke of HW-MN0440021
HW-MN0440021 Confirmed in the catalog @12867
Dec 17, 2025 – Jan 3, 2026 · Au'au Channel

Au'au Channel · Dec 2025 – Jan 2026

81 m
Deepest dive
3:24
Longest dive
62
Dives
Sightings
4
Days between first and last sighting
17

Dive stats modelled within real depth limits — not measured

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SightingSeafloorSea tempDeepest dive (modelled)
Dec 17, 202544 m—31 m
Dec 20, 202583 m—64 m
Jan 3, 202663 m25.5°C47 m
Jan 3, 2026188 m25.6°C81 m

Seafloor and sea temperature measured · ✳ dives modelled

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Deepest dive against the seafloor, per sighting

Seafloor · measured Deepest dive · modelled
Dec 17, 2025 — seafloor 44 m (measured), deepest dive 31 m (modelled)Dec 17Dec 20, 2025 — seafloor 83 m (measured), deepest dive 64 m (modelled)Dec 20Jan 3, 2026 — seafloor 63 m (measured), deepest dive 47 m (modelled)Jan 3Jan 3, 2026 — seafloor 188 m (measured), deepest dive 81 m (modelled)Jan 3

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

Dives

81 m
Deepest dive
3:24
Longest dive
62
Dives
22 m
Avg dive depth
4
Sightings
17
Days first → last

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Dive profile

modelled
05010081 mstartdive sequence (illustrative)

Depth shaped by the seafloor limit here (188 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 · Jan 3, 2026

measured
Seafloor depth
188 m
Sea-surface temperature
25.6°C
Distance from shore
9.0 km

Across the residency · 4 sightings

measured
Seafloor depth
44 m – 188 m
Sea-surface temperature
25.5°C – 25.6°C
Distance from shore
2.0 km – 9.0 km

Sources: GEBCO seafloor grid · NOAA OISST sea temperature · 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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