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Au'au Channel

Inverness – Residency

9th sighting in Au'au Channel
Fluke of Inverness
Inverness Confirmed in the catalog @12933
Mar 13 – 21, 2025 · Au'au Channel

Au'au Channel · Mar 2025

85 m
Deepest dive
2:12
Longest dive
18
Dives
Sightings
3
Days between first and last sighting
8

Dive stats modelled within real depth limits — not measured

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SightingSeafloorSea tempDeepest dive (modelled)
Mar 13, 202564 m24.8°C58 m
Mar 18, 2025128 m25.4°C85 m
Mar 21, 202567 m24.8°C55 m

Seafloor and sea temperature measured · ✳ dives modelled

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Deepest dive against the seafloor, per sighting

Seafloor · measured Deepest dive · modelled
Mar 13, 2025 — seafloor 64 m (measured), deepest dive 58 m (modelled)Mar 13Mar 18, 2025 — seafloor 128 m (measured), deepest dive 85 m (modelled)Mar 18Mar 21, 2025 — seafloor 67 m (measured), deepest dive 55 m (modelled)Mar 21

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

Dives

85 m
Deepest dive
2:12
Longest dive
18
Dives
28 m
Avg dive depth
3
Sightings
8
Days first → last

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Dive profile

modelled
05010085 mstartdive sequence (illustrative)

Depth shaped by the seafloor limit here (128 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 · Mar 18, 2025

measured
Seafloor depth
128 m
Sea-surface temperature
25.4°C
Distance from shore
7.0 km

Across the residency · 3 sightings

measured
Seafloor depth
64 m – 128 m
Sea-surface temperature
24.8°C – 25.4°C
Distance from shore
4.0 km – 7.0 km

Sources: GEBCO seafloor grid · NASA JPL MUR sea temperature · PacIOOS coastline distance

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Source records

This activity is assembled from 3 catalogued encounters on Happywhale.

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