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South Africa

HW-MN0804332 – Residency

11th sighting in South Africa
Fluke of HW-MN0804332
HW-MN0804332 Confirmed in the catalog @128313
Nov 17, 2024 – Jan 4, 2025 · South Africa

South Africa · Nov 2024 – Jan 2025

70 m
Deepest dive
2:48
Longest dive
144
Dives
Sightings
11
Days between first and last sighting
48
Deepest dive on record
70 m · this residency

Dive stats modelled within real depth limits — not measured

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SightingSeafloorSea tempDeepest dive (modelled)
Nov 17, 202459 m—43 m
Nov 17, 202459 m—23 m
Nov 17, 202459 m—50 m
Nov 30, 202478 m—61 m
Dec 2, 202459 m—46 m
Dec 3, 202486 m—70 m
Dec 4, 202439 m—25 m
Dec 28, 202452 m—48 m
Dec 29, 202456 m—47 m
Dec 29, 202450 m—39 m
Jan 4, 202570 m—57 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 17, 2024 — seafloor 59 m (measured), deepest dive 43 m (modelled)Nov 17Nov 17, 2024 — seafloor 59 m (measured), deepest dive 23 m (modelled)Nov 17Nov 17, 2024 — seafloor 59 m (measured), deepest dive 50 m (modelled)Nov 17Nov 30, 2024 — seafloor 78 m (measured), deepest dive 61 m (modelled)Nov 30Dec 2, 2024 — seafloor 59 m (measured), deepest dive 46 m (modelled)Dec 2Dec 3, 2024 — seafloor 86 m (measured), deepest dive 70 m (modelled)Dec 3Dec 4, 2024 — seafloor 39 m (measured), deepest dive 25 m (modelled)Dec 4Dec 28, 2024 — seafloor 52 m (measured), deepest dive 48 m (modelled)Dec 28Dec 29, 2024 — seafloor 56 m (measured), deepest dive 47 m (modelled)Dec 29Dec 29, 2024 — seafloor 50 m (measured), deepest dive 39 m (modelled)Dec 29Jan 4, 2025 — seafloor 70 m (measured), deepest dive 57 m (modelled)Jan 4

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

Dives

70 m
Deepest dive
2:48
Longest dive
144
Dives
22 m
Avg dive depth
11
Sightings
48
Days first → last

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Dive profile

modelled
05010070 mstartdive sequence (illustrative)

Depth shaped by the seafloor limit here (86 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 3, 2024

measured
Seafloor depth
86 m
Sea-surface temperature
—
Distance from shore
3.0 km

Across the residency · 11 sightings

measured
Seafloor depth
39 m – 86 m
Sea-surface temperature
—
Distance from shore
2.0 km – 10.0 km

Sources: GEBCO seafloor grid · PacIOOS coastline distance

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Source records

This activity is assembled from 11 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.

The photographs and fluke identifications behind every sighting are the work of the contributing observers — the citizen scientists, naturalists and operators who logged them, each named in the underlying GBIF occurrence record. Every activity links out to its source encounters on Happywhale. Basemaps © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL).

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