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Au'au Channel

HW-MN0440219 – Residency

13th sighting in Au'au Channel
Fluke of HW-MN0440219
HW-MN0440219 Confirmed in the catalog @13080
Mar 27 – Apr 5, 2026 · Au'au Channel

Late-Season Channel Days

Spring's easing out, and I'm still drifting this soft shallow water, plenty content.

49 m
Deepest dive
1:57
Longest dive
39
Dives
Sightings
3
Days between first and last sighting
9

Dive stats modelled within real depth limits — not measured

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SightingSeafloorSea tempDeepest dive (modelled)
Mar 27, 202642 m24.4°C28 m
Apr 2, 202666 m24.1°C49 m
Apr 5, 202623 m24.3°C21 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 27, 2026 — seafloor 42 m (measured), deepest dive 28 m (modelled)Mar 27Apr 2, 2026 — seafloor 66 m (measured), deepest dive 49 m (modelled)Apr 2Apr 5, 2026 — seafloor 23 m (measured), deepest dive 21 m (modelled)Apr 5

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

Dives

49 m
Deepest dive
1:57
Longest dive
39
Dives
15 m
Avg dive depth
3
Sightings
9
Days first → last

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Dive profile

modelled
0255049 mstartdive sequence (illustrative)

Depth shaped by the seafloor limit here (66 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 · Apr 2, 2026

measured
Seafloor depth
66 m
Sea-surface temperature
24.1°C
Distance from shore
6.0 km

Across the residency · 3 sightings

measured
Seafloor depth
23 m – 66 m
Sea-surface temperature
24.1°C – 24.4°C
Distance from shore
2.0 km – 6.0 km

Sources: GEBCO seafloor grid · NOAA OISST sea temperature · PacIOOS coastline distance

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Source records

This activity is assembled from 3 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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