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Au'au Channel

PWF-NP_1294 – Residency

11th sighting in Au'au Channel
Fluke of PWF-NP_1294
PWF-NP_1294 Confirmed in the catalog @23820
Mar 23 – Apr 1, 2026 · Au'au Channel

Late Season in the Channel

Spring's stretching long and this channel still hums just for me.

46 m
Deepest dive
1:50
Longest dive
30
Dives
Sightings
3
Days between first and last sighting
9

Dive stats modelled within real depth limits — not measured

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SightingSeafloorSea tempDeepest dive (modelled)
Mar 23, 202669 m24.7°C46 m
Mar 27, 202655 m24.4°C37 m
Apr 1, 202642 m24.1°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
Mar 23, 2026 — seafloor 69 m (measured), deepest dive 46 m (modelled)Mar 23Mar 27, 2026 — seafloor 55 m (measured), deepest dive 37 m (modelled)Mar 27Apr 1, 2026 — seafloor 42 m (measured), deepest dive 35 m (modelled)Apr 1

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

Dives

46 m
Deepest dive
1:50
Longest dive
30
Dives
16 m
Avg dive depth
3
Sightings
9
Days first → last

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Dive profile

modelled
0255046 mstartdive sequence (illustrative)

Depth shaped by the seafloor limit here (69 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 23, 2026

measured
Seafloor depth
69 m
Sea-surface temperature
24.7°C
Distance from shore
5.0 km

Across the residency · 3 sightings

measured
Seafloor depth
42 m – 69 m
Sea-surface temperature
24.1°C – 24.7°C
Distance from shore
2.0 km – 5.0 km

Sources: GEBCO seafloor grid · NOAA OISST sea temperature · PacIOOS coastline distance

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Source records

This activity is assembled from 3 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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