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South Africa

HW-MN0802851 – Residency

6th sighting in South Africa
Fluke of HW-MN0802851
HW-MN0802851 Confirmed in the catalog @110032
Dec 23, 2023 – Jan 21, 2024 · South Africa

South Africa · Dec 2023 – Jan 2024

74 m
Deepest dive
2:41
Longest dive
62
Dives
Sightings
6
Days between first and last sighting
29
Deepest dive on record
74 m · this residency

Dive stats modelled within real depth limits — not measured

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SightingSeafloorSea tempDeepest dive (modelled)
Dec 23, 202356 m—38 m
Dec 29, 202361 m—35 m
Jan 2, 202454 m—41 m
Jan 11, 202494 m—71 m
Jan 20, 202490 m—47 m
Jan 21, 202485 m—74 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 23, 2023 — seafloor 56 m (measured), deepest dive 38 m (modelled)Dec 23Dec 29, 2023 — seafloor 61 m (measured), deepest dive 35 m (modelled)Dec 29Jan 2, 2024 — seafloor 54 m (measured), deepest dive 41 m (modelled)Jan 2Jan 11, 2024 — seafloor 94 m (measured), deepest dive 71 m (modelled)Jan 11Jan 20, 2024 — seafloor 90 m (measured), deepest dive 47 m (modelled)Jan 20Jan 21, 2024 — seafloor 85 m (measured), deepest dive 74 m (modelled)Jan 21

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

Dives

74 m
Deepest dive
2:41
Longest dive
62
Dives
21 m
Avg dive depth
6
Sightings
29
Days first → last

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Dive profile

modelled
05010074 mstartdive sequence (illustrative)

Depth shaped by the seafloor limit here (85 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 · Jan 21, 2024

measured
Seafloor depth
85 m
Sea-surface temperature
—
Distance from shore
13.0 km

Across the residency · 6 sightings

measured
Seafloor depth
54 m – 94 m
Sea-surface temperature
—
Distance from shore
4.0 km – 15.0 km

Sources: GEBCO seafloor grid · PacIOOS coastline distance

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Source records

This activity is assembled from 6 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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