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Au'au Channel

OSUWTG-MnHI251 – Residency

6th sighting in Au'au Channel
Fluke of OSUWTG-MnHI251
OSUWTG-MnHI251 Confirmed in the catalog @35151
Mar 22 – 26, 2026 · Au'au Channel

Channel Company, Early Spring

Shallow water, good company, sand shelf right where I left it.

48 m
Deepest dive
2:50
Longest dive
34
Dives
Sightings
4
Days between first and last sighting
4

Dive stats modelled within real depth limits — not measured

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SightingSeafloorSea tempDeepest dive (modelled)
Mar 22, 202670 m24.7°C48 m
Mar 26, 202642 m24.4°C37 m
Mar 26, 202667 m24.4°C42 m
Mar 26, 202651 m24.4°C28 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 22, 2026 — seafloor 70 m (measured), deepest dive 48 m (modelled)Mar 22Mar 26, 2026 — seafloor 42 m (measured), deepest dive 37 m (modelled)Mar 26Mar 26, 2026 — seafloor 67 m (measured), deepest dive 42 m (modelled)Mar 26Mar 26, 2026 — seafloor 51 m (measured), deepest dive 28 m (modelled)Mar 26

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

Dives

48 m
Deepest dive
2:50
Longest dive
34
Dives
19 m
Avg dive depth
4
Sightings
4
Days first → last

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Dive profile

modelled
0255048 mstartdive sequence (illustrative)

Depth shaped by the seafloor limit here (70 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 22, 2026

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

Across the residency · 4 sightings

measured
Seafloor depth
42 m – 70 m
Sea-surface temperature
24.4°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 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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