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Au'au Channel

Saucer – Residency

3rd sighting in Au'au Channel
Fluke of Saucer
Saucer Confirmed in the catalog @49091
Mar 20 – Apr 2, 2025 · Au'au Channel

Au'au Channel · Mar – Apr 2025

39 m
Deepest dive
1:31
Longest dive
17
Dives
Sightings
2
Days between first and last sighting
13

Dive stats modelled within real depth limits — not measured

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SightingSeafloorSea tempDeepest dive (modelled)
Mar 20, 202542 m25.0°C24 m
Apr 2, 202556 m25.7°C39 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 20, 2025 — seafloor 42 m (measured), deepest dive 24 m (modelled)Mar 20Apr 2, 2025 — seafloor 56 m (measured), deepest dive 39 m (modelled)Apr 2

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

Dives

39 m
Deepest dive
1:31
Longest dive
17
Dives
16 m
Avg dive depth
2
Sightings
13
Days first → last

Dive metrics are modelled within real depth limits — not measured

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Dive profile

modelled
0255039 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 · Apr 2, 2025

measured
Seafloor depth
56 m
Sea-surface temperature
25.7°C
Distance from shore
1.0 km

Across the residency · 2 sightings

measured
Seafloor depth
42 m – 56 m
Sea-surface temperature
25.0°C – 25.7°C
Distance from shore
1.0 km – 2.0 km

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

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Source records

This activity is assembled from 2 catalogued encounters on Happywhale.

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