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Au'au Channel

Ebony – Residency

12th sighting in Au'au Channel
Fluke of Ebony
Ebony Confirmed in the catalog @33068
Feb 18 – Mar 28, 2026 · Au'au Channel

Her First Channel Days

My calf learned this channel by my side this spring.

41 m
Deepest dive
2:05
Longest dive
92
Dives
Sightings
5
Days between first and last sighting
38

Dive stats modelled within real depth limits — not measured

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SightingSeafloorSea tempDeepest dive (modelled)
Feb 18, 202635 m24.6°C28 m
Feb 20, 202648 m24.6°C40 m
Mar 23, 202637 m24.5°C32 m
Mar 25, 202642 m24.4°C34 m
Mar 28, 202656 m24.4°C41 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 18, 2026 — seafloor 35 m (measured), deepest dive 28 m (modelled)Feb 18Feb 20, 2026 — seafloor 48 m (measured), deepest dive 40 m (modelled)Feb 20Mar 23, 2026 — seafloor 37 m (measured), deepest dive 32 m (modelled)Mar 23Mar 25, 2026 — seafloor 42 m (measured), deepest dive 34 m (modelled)Mar 25Mar 28, 2026 — seafloor 56 m (measured), deepest dive 41 m (modelled)Mar 28

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

Dives

41 m
Deepest dive
2:05
Longest dive
92
Dives
17 m
Avg dive depth
5
Sightings
38
Days first → last

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Dive profile

modelled
0255041 mstartdive sequence (illustrative)

Depth shaped by the seafloor limit here (56 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 28, 2026

measured
Seafloor depth
56 m
Sea-surface temperature
24.4°C
Distance from shore
2.0 km

Across the residency · 5 sightings

measured
Seafloor depth
35 m – 56 m
Sea-surface temperature
24.4°C – 24.6°C
Distance from shore
1.0 km – 3.0 km

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

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Source records

This activity is assembled from 5 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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