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South Africa

Charlie Bravo 2024 – Residency

5th sighting in South Africa
Fluke of Charlie Bravo 2024
Charlie Bravo 2024 Confirmed in the catalog @126637
Oct 5, 2024 – Jan 19, 2025 · South Africa

South Africa · Oct 2024 – Jan 2025

51 m
Deepest dive
2:10
Longest dive
50
Dives
Sightings
5
Days between first and last sighting
106
Deepest dive on record
51 m · this residency

Dive stats modelled within real depth limits — not measured

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SightingSeafloorSea tempDeepest dive (modelled)
Oct 5, 2024-11 m——
Oct 7, 2024-26 m——
Jan 5, 202584 m—50 m
Jan 18, 202564 m—47 m
Jan 19, 202568 m—51 m

Seafloor and sea temperature measured · ✳ dives modelled

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Deepest dive against the seafloor, per sighting

Seafloor · measured Deepest dive · modelled
Oct 5, 2024 — seafloor -11 m (measured), deepest dive — (modelled)Oct 5Oct 7, 2024 — seafloor -26 m (measured), deepest dive — (modelled)Oct 7Jan 5, 2025 — seafloor 84 m (measured), deepest dive 50 m (modelled)Jan 5Jan 18, 2025 — seafloor 64 m (measured), deepest dive 47 m (modelled)Jan 18Jan 19, 2025 — seafloor 68 m (measured), deepest dive 51 m (modelled)Jan 19

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

Dives

51 m
Deepest dive
2:10
Longest dive
50
Dives
19 m
Avg dive depth
5
Sightings
106
Days first → last

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Dive profile

modelled
05010051 mstartdive sequence (illustrative)

Depth shaped by the seafloor limit here (68 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 19, 2025

measured
Seafloor depth
68 m
Sea-surface temperature
—
Distance from shore
7.0 km

Across the residency · 5 sightings

measured
Seafloor depth
-26 m – 84 m
Sea-surface temperature
—
Distance from shore
5.0 km – 7.0 km

Sources: GEBCO seafloor grid · PacIOOS coastline distance

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Source records

This activity is assembled from 5 catalogued encounters on Happywhale.

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