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Au'au Channel

CAEP-117 – Residency

6th sighting in Au'au Channel
Fluke of CAEP-117
CAEP-117 Confirmed in the catalog @37437
Dec 29, 2025 – Jan 11, 2026 · Au'au Channel

Au'au Channel · Dec 2025 – Jan 2026

98 m
Deepest dive
4:24
Longest dive
39
Dives
Sightings
3
Days between first and last sighting
13
Deepest dive on record
98 m · this residency

Dive stats modelled within real depth limits — not measured

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SightingSeafloorSea tempDeepest dive (modelled)
Dec 29, 2025161 m25.9°C98 m
Jan 3, 202668 m25.4°C26 m
Jan 11, 202616 m25.5°C12 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 29, 2025 — seafloor 161 m (measured), deepest dive 98 m (modelled)Dec 29Jan 3, 2026 — seafloor 68 m (measured), deepest dive 26 m (modelled)Jan 3Jan 11, 2026 — seafloor 16 m (measured), deepest dive 12 m (modelled)Jan 11

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

Dives

98 m
Deepest dive
4:24
Longest dive
39
Dives
18 m
Avg dive depth
3
Sightings
13
Days first → last

Dive metrics are modelled within real depth limits — not measured

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Dive profile

modelled
05010098 mstartdive sequence (illustrative)

Depth shaped by the seafloor limit here (161 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 29, 2025

measured
Seafloor depth
161 m
Sea-surface temperature
25.9°C
Distance from shore
3.0 km

Across the residency · 3 sightings

measured
Seafloor depth
16 m – 161 m
Sea-surface temperature
25.4°C – 25.9°C
Distance from shore
1.0 km – 5.0 km

Sources: GEBCO seafloor grid · NASA JPL MUR sea temperature · PacIOOS coastline distance

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Source records

This activity is assembled from 3 catalogued encounters on Happywhale.

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