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Au'au Channel

cat soup – Residency

25th sighting in Au'au Channel
Fluke of cat soup
cat soup Confirmed in the catalog @13255
Jan 18 – Apr 6, 2026 · Au'au Channel

Winter in the shallow blue

Rolled through this bright channel with company the whole stretch.

68 m
Deepest dive
2:49
Longest dive
127
Dives
Sightings
11
Days between first and last sighting
78

Dive stats modelled within real depth limits — not measured

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SightingSeafloorSea tempDeepest dive (modelled)
Jan 18, 202654 m25.2°C32 m
Jan 22, 202616 m25.1°C14 m
Jan 25, 202682 m25.6°C32 m
Jan 30, 202629 m25.6°C24 m
Feb 4, 202643 m25.4°C26 m
Feb 11, 202634 m25.0°C31 m
Feb 27, 202686 m24.4°C68 m
Feb 28, 202651 m24.6°C41 m
Mar 16, 202680 m24.5°C62 m
Mar 17, 202680 m24.5°C64 m
Apr 6, 202674 m24.2°C60 m

Seafloor and sea temperature measured · ✳ dives modelled

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Deepest dive against the seafloor, per sighting

Seafloor · measured Deepest dive · modelled
Jan 18, 2026 — seafloor 54 m (measured), deepest dive 32 m (modelled)Jan 18Jan 22, 2026 — seafloor 16 m (measured), deepest dive 14 m (modelled)Jan 22Jan 25, 2026 — seafloor 82 m (measured), deepest dive 32 m (modelled)Jan 25Jan 30, 2026 — seafloor 29 m (measured), deepest dive 24 m (modelled)Jan 30Feb 4, 2026 — seafloor 43 m (measured), deepest dive 26 m (modelled)Feb 4Feb 11, 2026 — seafloor 34 m (measured), deepest dive 31 m (modelled)Feb 11Feb 27, 2026 — seafloor 86 m (measured), deepest dive 68 m (modelled)Feb 27Feb 28, 2026 — seafloor 51 m (measured), deepest dive 41 m (modelled)Feb 28Mar 16, 2026 — seafloor 80 m (measured), deepest dive 62 m (modelled)Mar 16Mar 17, 2026 — seafloor 80 m (measured), deepest dive 64 m (modelled)Mar 17Apr 6, 2026 — seafloor 74 m (measured), deepest dive 60 m (modelled)Apr 6

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

Dives

68 m
Deepest dive
2:49
Longest dive
127
Dives
20 m
Avg dive depth
11
Sightings
78
Days first → last

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Dive profile

modelled
05010068 mstartdive sequence (illustrative)

Depth shaped by the seafloor limit here (86 m) and the published dive-behaviour distribution. Modelled, not measured.

Deep Effort Score

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Place

Where this happened · Feb 27, 2026

measured
Seafloor depth
86 m
Sea-surface temperature
24.4°C
Distance from shore
2.0 km

Across the residency · 11 sightings

measured
Seafloor depth
16 m – 86 m
Sea-surface temperature
24.2°C – 25.6°C
Distance from shore
2.0 km – 5.0 km

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

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Source records

This activity is assembled from 11 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.

The photographs and fluke identifications behind every sighting are the work of the contributing observers — the citizen scientists, naturalists and operators who logged them, each named in the underlying GBIF occurrence record. Every activity links out to its source encounters on Happywhale. Basemaps © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL).

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