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South Africa

HW-MN0802864 – Residency

18th sighting in South Africa
Fluke of HW-MN0802864
HW-MN0802864 Confirmed in the catalog @110140
Nov 8 – Dec 21, 2025 · South Africa

South Africa · Nov – Dec 2025

43 m
Deepest dive
2:04
Longest dive
56
Dives
Sightings
4
Days between first and last sighting
43

Dive stats modelled within real depth limits — not measured

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SightingSeafloorSea tempDeepest dive (modelled)
Nov 8, 202545 m—36 m
Nov 11, 20252 m—2 m
Dec 10, 202548 m—39 m
Dec 21, 202564 m—43 m

Seafloor and sea temperature measured · ✳ dives modelled

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Deepest dive against the seafloor, per sighting

Seafloor · measured Deepest dive · modelled
Nov 8, 2025 — seafloor 45 m (measured), deepest dive 36 m (modelled)Nov 8Nov 11, 2025 — seafloor 2 m (measured), deepest dive 2 m (modelled)Nov 11Dec 10, 2025 — seafloor 48 m (measured), deepest dive 39 m (modelled)Dec 10Dec 21, 2025 — seafloor 64 m (measured), deepest dive 43 m (modelled)Dec 21

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

Dives

43 m
Deepest dive
2:04
Longest dive
56
Dives
16 m
Avg dive depth
4
Sightings
43
Days first → last

Dive metrics are modelled within real depth limits — not measured

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Dive profile

modelled
0255043 mstartdive sequence (illustrative)

Depth shaped by the seafloor limit here (64 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 21, 2025

measured
Seafloor depth
64 m
Sea-surface temperature
—
Distance from shore
4.0 km

Across the residency · 4 sightings

measured
Seafloor depth
2 m – 64 m
Sea-surface temperature
—
Distance from shore
3.0 km – 6.0 km

Sources: GEBCO seafloor grid · PacIOOS coastline distance

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Source records

This activity is assembled from 4 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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