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South Africa

HW-MN0802869 – Residency

3rd sighting in South Africa
Fluke of HW-MN0802869
HW-MN0802869 Confirmed in the catalog @110145
Dec 30, 2023 – Jan 3, 2024 · South Africa

South Africa · Dec 2023 – Jan 2024

70 m
Deepest dive
2:43
Longest dive
37
Dives
Sightings
3
Days between first and last sighting
4

Dive stats modelled within real depth limits — not measured

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SightingSeafloorSea tempDeepest dive (modelled)
Dec 30, 202362 m—31 m
Jan 2, 202479 m—70 m
Jan 3, 202463 m—45 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 30, 2023 — seafloor 62 m (measured), deepest dive 31 m (modelled)Dec 30Jan 2, 2024 — seafloor 79 m (measured), deepest dive 70 m (modelled)Jan 2Jan 3, 2024 — seafloor 63 m (measured), deepest dive 45 m (modelled)Jan 3

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

Dives

70 m
Deepest dive
2:43
Longest dive
37
Dives
25 m
Avg dive depth
3
Sightings
4
Days first → last

Dive metrics are modelled within real depth limits — not measured

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Dive profile

modelled
05010070 mstartdive sequence (illustrative)

Depth shaped by the seafloor limit here (79 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 2, 2024

measured
Seafloor depth
79 m
Sea-surface temperature
—
Distance from shore
12.0 km

Across the residency · 3 sightings

measured
Seafloor depth
62 m – 79 m
Sea-surface temperature
—
Distance from shore
7.0 km – 14.0 km

Sources: GEBCO seafloor grid · PacIOOS coastline distance

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Source records

This activity is assembled from 3 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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