MRIWU-00165 – Residency
8th sighting in South Africa
MRIWU-00165 @128340
Nov 17, 2024 – Feb 20, 2025 · South Africa
South Africa · Nov 2024 – Feb 2025
53 m
Deepest dive
2:45
Longest dive
84
Dives
- Sightings
- 8
- Days between first and last sighting
- 95
- Deepest dive on record
- 53 m · this residency
Dive stats modelled within real depth limits — not measured
Get actual dive data with Risa Deep →| Sighting | Seafloor | Sea temp | Deepest dive (modelled) |
|---|---|---|---|
| Nov 17, 2024 | 59 m | — | 53 m |
| Dec 10, 2024 | 72 m | — | 33 m |
| Dec 11, 2024 | 60 m | — | 48 m |
| Dec 12, 2024 | 41 m | — | 34 m |
| Dec 14, 2024 | 78 m | — | 49 m |
| Jan 8, 2025 | 87 m | — | 40 m |
| Jan 24, 2025 | 50 m | — | 45 m |
| Feb 20, 2025 | 49 m | — | 36 m |
Seafloor and sea temperature measured · ✳ dives modelled
Deepest dive against the seafloor, per sighting
Seafloor · measured Deepest dive · modelledDepth runs down from the surface. The modelled dive never passes the measured seafloor at that sighting.
Dives
53 m
Deepest dive
2:45
Longest dive
84
Dives
18 m
Avg dive depth
8
Sightings
95
Days first → last
Dive metrics are modelled within real depth limits — not measured
Get actual dive data with Risa Deep →Dive profile
modelledDepth shaped by the seafloor limit here (59 m) and the published dive-behaviour distribution. Modelled, not measured.
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Where this happened · Nov 17, 2024
measured- Seafloor depth
- 59 m
- Sea-surface temperature
- —
- Distance from shore
- 5.0 km
Across the residency · 8 sightings
measured- Seafloor depth
- 41 m – 87 m
- Sea-surface temperature
- —
- Distance from shore
- 2.0 km – 14.0 km
Sources: GEBCO seafloor grid · PacIOOS coastline distance
Source records
This activity is assembled from 8 catalogued encounters on Happywhale.