Whitey – Residency
14th sighting in Au'au Channel
Whitey @17871
Mar 18 – 26, 2025 · Au'au Channel
Au'au Channel · Mar 2025
96 m
Deepest dive
3:45
Longest dive
39
Dives
- Sightings
- 4
- Days between first and last sighting
- 8
- Deepest dive on record
- 96 m · this residency
Dive stats modelled within real depth limits — not measured
Get actual dive data with Risa Deep →| Sighting | Seafloor | Sea temp | Deepest dive (modelled) |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 18, 2025 | 701 m | — | 96 m |
| Mar 21, 2025 | 183 m | — | 87 m |
| Mar 22, 2025 | 16 m | — | 13 m |
| Mar 26, 2025 | 125 m | — | 42 m |
Seafloor and sea temperature measured · ✳ dives modelled
Deepest dive against the seafloor, per sighting
Seafloor · measured Deepest dive · modelledDepth runs down from the surface. The modelled dive never passes the measured seafloor at that sighting.
Dives
96 m
Deepest dive
3:45
Longest dive
39
Dives
21 m
Avg dive depth
4
Sightings
8
Days first → last
Dive metrics are modelled within real depth limits — not measured
Get actual dive data with Risa Deep →Dive profile
modelledDepth shaped by the seafloor limit here (701 m) and the published dive-behaviour distribution. Modelled, not measured.
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Where this happened · Mar 18, 2025
measured- Seafloor depth
- 701 m
- Sea-surface temperature
- —
- Distance from shore
- 11.0 km
Across the residency · 4 sightings
measured- Seafloor depth
- 16 m – 701 m
- Sea-surface temperature
- —
- Distance from shore
- 6.0 km – 11.0 km
Sources: GEBCO seafloor grid · PacIOOS coastline distance
Source records
This activity is assembled from 4 catalogued encounters on Happywhale.