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South Africa

Kilo Bravo 2024 – Residency

7th sighting in South Africa
Fluke of Kilo Bravo 2024
Kilo Bravo 2024 Confirmed in the catalog @126929
Oct 17, 2024 – Feb 20, 2025 · South Africa

South Africa · Oct 2024 – Feb 2025

35 m
Deepest dive
1:22
Longest dive
70
Dives
Sightings
7
Days between first and last sighting
126
Deepest dive on record
35 m · this residency

Dive stats modelled within real depth limits — not measured

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SightingSeafloorSea tempDeepest dive (modelled)
Oct 17, 20246 m—5 m
Oct 18, 20249 m—8 m
Nov 16, 202427 m—24 m
Nov 22, 2024-2 m——
Feb 12, 202543 m—26 m
Feb 19, 202544 m—26 m
Feb 20, 202541 m—35 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 17, 2024 — seafloor 6 m (measured), deepest dive 5 m (modelled)Oct 17Oct 18, 2024 — seafloor 9 m (measured), deepest dive 8 m (modelled)Oct 18Nov 16, 2024 — seafloor 27 m (measured), deepest dive 24 m (modelled)Nov 16Nov 22, 2024 — seafloor -2 m (measured), deepest dive — (modelled)Nov 22Feb 12, 2025 — seafloor 43 m (measured), deepest dive 26 m (modelled)Feb 12Feb 19, 2025 — seafloor 44 m (measured), deepest dive 26 m (modelled)Feb 19Feb 20, 2025 — seafloor 41 m (measured), deepest dive 35 m (modelled)Feb 20

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

Dives

35 m
Deepest dive
1:22
Longest dive
70
Dives
9 m
Avg dive depth
7
Sightings
126
Days first → last

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Dive profile

modelled
0255035 mstartdive sequence (illustrative)

Depth shaped by the seafloor limit here (41 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 · Feb 20, 2025

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

Across the residency · 7 sightings

measured
Seafloor depth
-2 m – 44 m
Sea-surface temperature
—
Distance from shore
1.0 km – 4.0 km

Sources: GEBCO seafloor grid · PacIOOS coastline distance

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Source records

This activity is assembled from 7 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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