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Au'au Channel

Freedom – Residency

7th sighting in Au'au Channel
Fluke of Freedom
Freedom Confirmed in the catalog @24673
Dec 2, 2025 – Jan 17, 2026 · Au'au Channel

Au'au Channel · Dec 2025 – Jan 2026

147 m
Deepest dive
5:22
Longest dive
68
Dives
Sightings
4
Days between first and last sighting
46

Dive stats modelled within real depth limits — not measured

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SightingSeafloorSea tempDeepest dive (modelled)
Dec 2, 2025234 m26.5°C147 m
Dec 4, 202548 m26.3°C38 m
Dec 27, 202569 m26.0°C61 m
Jan 17, 2026102 m25.3°C74 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 2, 2025 — seafloor 234 m (measured), deepest dive 147 m (modelled)Dec 2Dec 4, 2025 — seafloor 48 m (measured), deepest dive 38 m (modelled)Dec 4Dec 27, 2025 — seafloor 69 m (measured), deepest dive 61 m (modelled)Dec 27Jan 17, 2026 — seafloor 102 m (measured), deepest dive 74 m (modelled)Jan 17

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

Dives

147 m
Deepest dive
5:22
Longest dive
68
Dives
26 m
Avg dive depth
4
Sightings
46
Days first → last

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Dive profile

modelled
075150147 mstartdive sequence (illustrative)

Depth shaped by the seafloor limit here (234 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 · Dec 2, 2025

measured
Seafloor depth
234 m
Sea-surface temperature
26.5°C
Distance from shore
8.0 km

Across the residency · 4 sightings

measured
Seafloor depth
48 m – 234 m
Sea-surface temperature
25.3°C – 26.5°C
Distance from shore
3.0 km – 8.0 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.

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