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Au'au Channel

Kaos – Residency

16th sighting in Au'au Channel
Fluke of Kaos
Kaos Confirmed in the catalog @6313
Dec 29, 2025 – Feb 14, 2026 · Au'au Channel

Au'au Channel · Dec 2025 – Feb 2026

70 m
Deepest dive
2:57
Longest dive
104
Dives
Sightings
7
Days between first and last sighting
47

Dive stats modelled within real depth limits — not measured

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SightingSeafloorSea tempDeepest dive (modelled)
Dec 29, 202548 m25.4°C43 m
Dec 29, 202581 m25.4°C14 m
Jan 26, 202674 m25.5°C66 m
Jan 28, 202642 m25.6°C35 m
Jan 31, 202616 m25.5°C14 m
Feb 13, 202681 m25.1°C70 m
Feb 14, 202661 m25.0°C33 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 48 m (measured), deepest dive 43 m (modelled)Dec 29Dec 29, 2025 — seafloor 81 m (measured), deepest dive 14 m (modelled)Dec 29Jan 26, 2026 — seafloor 74 m (measured), deepest dive 66 m (modelled)Jan 26Jan 28, 2026 — seafloor 42 m (measured), deepest dive 35 m (modelled)Jan 28Jan 31, 2026 — seafloor 16 m (measured), deepest dive 14 m (modelled)Jan 31Feb 13, 2026 — seafloor 81 m (measured), deepest dive 70 m (modelled)Feb 13Feb 14, 2026 — seafloor 61 m (measured), deepest dive 33 m (modelled)Feb 14

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

Dives

70 m
Deepest dive
2:57
Longest dive
104
Dives
17 m
Avg dive depth
7
Sightings
47
Days first → last

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Dive profile

modelled
05010070 mstartdive sequence (illustrative)

Depth shaped by the seafloor limit here (81 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 · Feb 13, 2026

measured
Seafloor depth
81 m
Sea-surface temperature
25.1°C
Distance from shore
2.0 km

Across the residency · 7 sightings

measured
Seafloor depth
16 m – 81 m
Sea-surface temperature
25.0°C – 25.6°C
Distance from shore
2.0 km – 7.0 km

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

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Source records

This activity is assembled from 7 catalogued encounters on Happywhale.

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