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Au'au Channel

HW-MN0441743 – Residency

9th sighting in Au'au Channel
Fluke of HW-MN0441743
HW-MN0441743 Confirmed in the catalog @35570
Mar 4 – Apr 23, 2026 · Au'au Channel

Channel Season, Right on Cue

Warm, shallow, crowded with kin — exactly why I keep choosing this water.

36 m
Deepest dive
1:53
Longest dive
53
Dives
Sightings
5
Days between first and last sighting
50

Dive stats modelled within real depth limits — not measured

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SightingSeafloorSea tempDeepest dive (modelled)
Mar 4, 202693 m24.8°C21 m
Mar 18, 202642 m24.7°C34 m
Mar 18, 202642 m24.7°C35 m
Mar 18, 202642 m24.7°C36 m
Apr 23, 202622 m25.3°C20 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 4, 2026 — seafloor 93 m (measured), deepest dive 21 m (modelled)Mar 4Mar 18, 2026 — seafloor 42 m (measured), deepest dive 34 m (modelled)Mar 18Mar 18, 2026 — seafloor 42 m (measured), deepest dive 35 m (modelled)Mar 18Mar 18, 2026 — seafloor 42 m (measured), deepest dive 36 m (modelled)Mar 18Apr 23, 2026 — seafloor 22 m (measured), deepest dive 20 m (modelled)Apr 23

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

Dives

36 m
Deepest dive
1:53
Longest dive
53
Dives
14 m
Avg dive depth
5
Sightings
50
Days first → last

Dive metrics are modelled within real depth limits — not measured

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Dive profile

modelled
0255036 mstartdive sequence (illustrative)

Depth shaped by the seafloor limit here (42 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 18, 2026

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

Across the residency · 5 sightings

measured
Seafloor depth
22 m – 93 m
Sea-surface temperature
24.7°C – 25.3°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 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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