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Au'au Channel

Vanta – Residency

15th sighting in Au'au Channel
Fluke of Vanta
Vanta Confirmed in the catalog @22317
Feb 14 – Mar 16, 2025 · Au'au Channel

Au'au Channel · Feb – Mar 2025

145 m
Deepest dive
4:53
Longest dive
23
Dives
Sightings
4
Days between first and last sighting
30

Dive stats modelled within real depth limits — not measured

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SightingSeafloorSea tempDeepest dive (modelled)
Feb 14, 202586 m25.4°C50 m
Feb 28, 202539 m25.2°C29 m
Mar 3, 2025199 m25.6°C145 m
Mar 16, 202550 m24.7°C33 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, 2025 — seafloor 86 m (measured), deepest dive 50 m (modelled)Feb 14Feb 28, 2025 — seafloor 39 m (measured), deepest dive 29 m (modelled)Feb 28Mar 3, 2025 — seafloor 199 m (measured), deepest dive 145 m (modelled)Mar 3Mar 16, 2025 — seafloor 50 m (measured), deepest dive 33 m (modelled)Mar 16

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

Dives

145 m
Deepest dive
4:53
Longest dive
23
Dives
31 m
Avg dive depth
4
Sightings
30
Days first → last

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Dive profile

modelled
075150145 mstartdive sequence (illustrative)

Depth shaped by the seafloor limit here (199 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 · Mar 3, 2025

measured
Seafloor depth
199 m
Sea-surface temperature
25.6°C
Distance from shore
11.0 km

Across the residency · 4 sightings

measured
Seafloor depth
39 m – 199 m
Sea-surface temperature
24.7°C – 25.6°C
Distance from shore
1.0 km – 11.0 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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