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Au'au Channel

Patches – Residency

6th sighting in Au'au Channel
Fluke of Patches
Patches Confirmed in the catalog @13435
Jan 17 – Mar 1, 2022 · Au'au Channel

Au'au Channel · Jan – Mar 2022

43 m
Deepest dive
2:26
Longest dive
67
Dives
Sightings
4
Days between first and last sighting
43

Dive stats modelled within real depth limits — not measured

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SightingSeafloorSea tempDeepest dive (modelled)
Jan 17, 202242 m25.1°C37 m
Feb 8, 202246 m25.0°C34 m
Feb 12, 202247 m24.9°C43 m
Mar 1, 202265 m25.1°C40 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 17, 2022 — seafloor 42 m (measured), deepest dive 37 m (modelled)Jan 17Feb 8, 2022 — seafloor 46 m (measured), deepest dive 34 m (modelled)Feb 8Feb 12, 2022 — seafloor 47 m (measured), deepest dive 43 m (modelled)Feb 12Mar 1, 2022 — seafloor 65 m (measured), deepest dive 40 m (modelled)Mar 1

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

Dives

43 m
Deepest dive
2:26
Longest dive
67
Dives
19 m
Avg dive depth
4
Sightings
43
Days first → last

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Dive profile

modelled
0255043 mstartdive sequence (illustrative)

Depth shaped by the seafloor limit here (47 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 · Feb 12, 2022

measured
Seafloor depth
47 m
Sea-surface temperature
24.9°C
Distance from shore
1.0 km

Across the residency · 4 sightings

measured
Seafloor depth
42 m – 65 m
Sea-surface temperature
24.9°C – 25.1°C
Distance from shore
1.0 km – 4.0 km

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

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Source records

This activity is assembled from 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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