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Au'au Channel

Kai Koa – Residency

15th sighting in Au'au Channel
Fluke of Kai Koa
Kai Koa Confirmed in the catalog @29338
Dec 10, 2025 – Jan 26, 2026 · Au'au Channel

Au'au Channel · Dec 2025 – Jan 2026

88 m
Deepest dive
4:01
Longest dive
51
Dives
Sightings
4
Days between first and last sighting
47

Dive stats modelled within real depth limits — not measured

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SightingSeafloorSea tempDeepest dive (modelled)
Dec 10, 202571 m26.1°C52 m
Dec 25, 202597 m26.5°C88 m
Dec 29, 202568 m25.3°C22 m
Jan 26, 202642 m25.4°C38 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 10, 2025 — seafloor 71 m (measured), deepest dive 52 m (modelled)Dec 10Dec 25, 2025 — seafloor 97 m (measured), deepest dive 88 m (modelled)Dec 25Dec 29, 2025 — seafloor 68 m (measured), deepest dive 22 m (modelled)Dec 29Jan 26, 2026 — seafloor 42 m (measured), deepest dive 38 m (modelled)Jan 26

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

Dives

88 m
Deepest dive
4:01
Longest dive
51
Dives
23 m
Avg dive depth
4
Sightings
47
Days first → last

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Dive profile

modelled
05010088 mstartdive sequence (illustrative)

Depth shaped by the seafloor limit here (97 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 25, 2025

measured
Seafloor depth
97 m
Sea-surface temperature
26.5°C
Distance from shore
6.0 km

Across the residency · 4 sightings

measured
Seafloor depth
42 m – 97 m
Sea-surface temperature
25.3°C – 26.5°C
Distance from shore
2.0 km – 6.0 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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