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Au'au Channel

Qimeq – Residency

4th sighting in Au'au Channel
Fluke of Qimeq
Qimeq Confirmed in the catalog @16855
Dec 26, 2024 – Jan 14, 2025 · Au'au Channel

Au'au Channel · Dec 2024 – Jan 2025

28 m
Deepest dive
1:40
Longest dive
39
Dives
Sightings
3
Days between first and last sighting
19

Dive stats modelled within real depth limits — not measured

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SightingSeafloorSea tempDeepest dive (modelled)
Dec 26, 202415 m25.6°C10 m
Dec 26, 202423 m25.6°C21 m
Jan 14, 202532 m25.4°C28 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 26, 2024 — seafloor 15 m (measured), deepest dive 10 m (modelled)Dec 26Dec 26, 2024 — seafloor 23 m (measured), deepest dive 21 m (modelled)Dec 26Jan 14, 2025 — seafloor 32 m (measured), deepest dive 28 m (modelled)Jan 14

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

Dives

28 m
Deepest dive
1:40
Longest dive
39
Dives
12 m
Avg dive depth
3
Sightings
19
Days first → last

Dive metrics are modelled within real depth limits — not measured

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Dive profile

modelled
0255028 mstartdive sequence (illustrative)

Depth shaped by the seafloor limit here (32 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 · Jan 14, 2025

measured
Seafloor depth
32 m
Sea-surface temperature
25.4°C
Distance from shore
3.0 km

Across the residency · 3 sightings

measured
Seafloor depth
15 m – 32 m
Sea-surface temperature
25.4°C – 25.6°C
Distance from shore
2.0 km – 3.0 km

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

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Source records

This activity is assembled from 3 catalogued encounters on Happywhale.

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