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Au'au Channel

HW-MN0441013 – Residency

15th sighting in Au'au Channel
Fluke of HW-MN0441013
HW-MN0441013 Confirmed in the catalog @19757
Feb 14 – Apr 8, 2026 · Au'au Channel

This Channel, Every Spring

Shallow, bright, mine — cameras keep finding me right here.

44 m
Deepest dive
2:11
Longest dive
29
Dives
Sightings
4
Days between first and last sighting
53

Dive stats modelled within real depth limits — not measured

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SightingSeafloorSea tempDeepest dive (modelled)
Feb 14, 202622 m24.8°C20 m
Mar 10, 202692 m24.9°C37 m
Mar 18, 202642 m24.7°C30 m
Apr 8, 202677 m24.8°C44 m

Seafloor and sea temperature measured · ✳ dives modelled

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Deepest dive against the seafloor, per sighting

Seafloor · measured Deepest dive · modelled
Feb 14, 2026 — seafloor 22 m (measured), deepest dive 20 m (modelled)Feb 14Mar 10, 2026 — seafloor 92 m (measured), deepest dive 37 m (modelled)Mar 10Mar 18, 2026 — seafloor 42 m (measured), deepest dive 30 m (modelled)Mar 18Apr 8, 2026 — seafloor 77 m (measured), deepest dive 44 m (modelled)Apr 8

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

Dives

44 m
Deepest dive
2:11
Longest dive
29
Dives
17 m
Avg dive depth
4
Sightings
53
Days first → last

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Dive profile

modelled
0255044 mstartdive sequence (illustrative)

Depth shaped by the seafloor limit here (77 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 · Apr 8, 2026

measured
Seafloor depth
77 m
Sea-surface temperature
24.8°C
Distance from shore
4.0 km

Across the residency · 4 sightings

measured
Seafloor depth
22 m – 92 m
Sea-surface temperature
24.7°C – 24.9°C
Distance from shore
2.0 km – 4.0 km

Sources: GEBCO seafloor grid · NOAA OISST 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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