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Au'au Channel

Monarch – Residency

5th sighting in Au'au Channel
Fluke of Monarch
Monarch Confirmed in the catalog @13087
Feb 19 – Mar 25, 2023 · Au'au Channel

Au'au Channel · Feb – Mar 2023

52 m
Deepest dive
1:59
Longest dive
53
Dives
Sightings
4
Days between first and last sighting
35

Dive stats modelled within real depth limits — not measured

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SightingSeafloorSea tempDeepest dive (modelled)
Feb 19, 202320 m—18 m
Feb 19, 202340 m—32 m
Mar 13, 202362 m—52 m
Mar 25, 2023118 m—48 m

Seafloor and sea temperature measured · ✳ dives modelled

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Deepest dive against the seafloor, per sighting

Seafloor · measured Deepest dive · modelled
Feb 19, 2023 — seafloor 20 m (measured), deepest dive 18 m (modelled)Feb 19Feb 19, 2023 — seafloor 40 m (measured), deepest dive 32 m (modelled)Feb 19Mar 13, 2023 — seafloor 62 m (measured), deepest dive 52 m (modelled)Mar 13Mar 25, 2023 — seafloor 118 m (measured), deepest dive 48 m (modelled)Mar 25

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

Dives

52 m
Deepest dive
1:59
Longest dive
53
Dives
16 m
Avg dive depth
4
Sightings
35
Days first → last

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Dive profile

modelled
05010052 mstartdive sequence (illustrative)

Depth shaped by the seafloor limit here (62 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 13, 2023

measured
Seafloor depth
62 m
Sea-surface temperature
—
Distance from shore
4.0 km

Across the residency · 4 sightings

measured
Seafloor depth
20 m – 118 m
Sea-surface temperature
—
Distance from shore
2.0 km – 8.0 km

Sources: GEBCO seafloor grid · 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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