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Au'au Channel

WappiSimba – Residency

15th sighting in Au'au Channel
Fluke of WappiSimba
WappiSimba Confirmed in the catalog @15623
Dec 6, 2024 – Jan 16, 2025 · Au'au Channel

Au'au Channel · Dec 2024 – Jan 2025

42 m
Deepest dive
1:55
Longest dive
33
Dives
Sightings
5
Days between first and last sighting
41

Dive stats modelled within real depth limits — not measured

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SightingSeafloorSea tempDeepest dive (modelled)
Dec 6, 202438 m26.3°C29 m
Dec 19, 202448 m25.6°C42 m
Jan 2, 202569 m25.4°C40 m
Jan 2, 202535 m25.3°C25 m
Jan 16, 202572 m25.4°C35 m

Seafloor and sea temperature measured · ✳ dives modelled

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Deepest dive against the seafloor, per sighting

Seafloor · measured Deepest dive · modelled
Dec 6, 2024 — seafloor 38 m (measured), deepest dive 29 m (modelled)Dec 6Dec 19, 2024 — seafloor 48 m (measured), deepest dive 42 m (modelled)Dec 19Jan 2, 2025 — seafloor 69 m (measured), deepest dive 40 m (modelled)Jan 2Jan 2, 2025 — seafloor 35 m (measured), deepest dive 25 m (modelled)Jan 2Jan 16, 2025 — seafloor 72 m (measured), deepest dive 35 m (modelled)Jan 16

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

Dives

42 m
Deepest dive
1:55
Longest dive
33
Dives
18 m
Avg dive depth
5
Sightings
41
Days first → last

Dive metrics are modelled within real depth limits — not measured

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Dive profile

modelled
0255042 mstartdive sequence (illustrative)

Depth shaped by the seafloor limit here (48 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 · Dec 19, 2024

measured
Seafloor depth
48 m
Sea-surface temperature
25.6°C
Distance from shore
2.0 km

Across the residency · 5 sightings

measured
Seafloor depth
35 m – 72 m
Sea-surface temperature
25.3°C – 26.3°C
Distance from shore
2.0 km – 6.0 km

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

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Source records

This activity is assembled from 5 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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