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South Africa

Interim – Residency

3rd sighting in South Africa
Fluke of Interim
Interim Confirmed in the catalog @110181
Nov 6, 2024 – Jan 4, 2025 · South Africa

South Africa · Nov 2024 – Jan 2025

55 m
Deepest dive
2:19
Longest dive
40
Dives
Sightings
4
Days between first and last sighting
60

Dive stats modelled within real depth limits — not measured

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SightingSeafloorSea tempDeepest dive (modelled)
Nov 6, 202480 m—55 m
Dec 17, 202469 m—34 m
Dec 28, 202452 m—16 m
Jan 4, 202570 m—52 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 6, 2024 — seafloor 80 m (measured), deepest dive 55 m (modelled)Nov 6Dec 17, 2024 — seafloor 69 m (measured), deepest dive 34 m (modelled)Dec 17Dec 28, 2024 — seafloor 52 m (measured), deepest dive 16 m (modelled)Dec 28Jan 4, 2025 — seafloor 70 m (measured), deepest dive 52 m (modelled)Jan 4

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

Dives

55 m
Deepest dive
2:19
Longest dive
40
Dives
18 m
Avg dive depth
4
Sightings
60
Days first → last

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Dive profile

modelled
05010055 mstartdive sequence (illustrative)

Depth shaped by the seafloor limit here (80 m) and the published dive-behaviour distribution. Modelled, not measured.

Deep Effort Score

Deep

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Place

Where this happened · Nov 6, 2024

measured
Seafloor depth
80 m
Sea-surface temperature
—
Distance from shore
21.0 km

Across the residency · 4 sightings

measured
Seafloor depth
52 m – 80 m
Sea-surface temperature
—
Distance from shore
2.0 km – 21.0 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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