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South Africa

Curuba – Residency

9th sighting in South Africa
Fluke of Curuba
Curuba Confirmed in the catalog @130035
Nov 29, 2024 – Jan 19, 2025 · South Africa

South Africa · Nov 2024 – Jan 2025

68 m
Deepest dive
4:19
Longest dive
137
Dives
Sightings
9
Days between first and last sighting
51

Dive stats modelled within real depth limits — not measured

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SightingSeafloorSea tempDeepest dive (modelled)
Nov 29, 202493 m—64 m
Dec 11, 202474 m—62 m
Dec 11, 202460 m—44 m
Dec 12, 202441 m—13 m
Dec 12, 202442 m—36 m
Dec 19, 202459 m—51 m
Jan 4, 202555 m—42 m
Jan 8, 202587 m—68 m
Jan 19, 202568 m—27 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 29, 2024 — seafloor 93 m (measured), deepest dive 64 m (modelled)Nov 29Dec 11, 2024 — seafloor 74 m (measured), deepest dive 62 m (modelled)Dec 11Dec 11, 2024 — seafloor 60 m (measured), deepest dive 44 m (modelled)Dec 11Dec 12, 2024 — seafloor 41 m (measured), deepest dive 13 m (modelled)Dec 12Dec 12, 2024 — seafloor 42 m (measured), deepest dive 36 m (modelled)Dec 12Dec 19, 2024 — seafloor 59 m (measured), deepest dive 51 m (modelled)Dec 19Jan 4, 2025 — seafloor 55 m (measured), deepest dive 42 m (modelled)Jan 4Jan 8, 2025 — seafloor 87 m (measured), deepest dive 68 m (modelled)Jan 8Jan 19, 2025 — seafloor 68 m (measured), deepest dive 27 m (modelled)Jan 19

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

Dives

68 m
Deepest dive
4:19
Longest dive
137
Dives
17 m
Avg dive depth
9
Sightings
51
Days first → last

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Dive profile

modelled
05010068 mstartdive sequence (illustrative)

Depth shaped by the seafloor limit here (87 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 8, 2025

measured
Seafloor depth
87 m
Sea-surface temperature
—
Distance from shore
14.0 km

Across the residency · 9 sightings

measured
Seafloor depth
41 m – 93 m
Sea-surface temperature
—
Distance from shore
2.0 km – 14.0 km

Sources: GEBCO seafloor grid · PacIOOS coastline distance

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Source records

This activity is assembled from 9 catalogued encounters on Happywhale.

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