Curuba – Residency
9th sighting in South Africa
Curuba @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
Get actual dive data with Risa Deep →| Sighting | Seafloor | Sea temp | Deepest dive (modelled) |
|---|---|---|---|
| Nov 29, 2024 | 93 m | — | 64 m |
| Dec 11, 2024 | 74 m | — | 62 m |
| Dec 11, 2024 | 60 m | — | 44 m |
| Dec 12, 2024 | 41 m | — | 13 m |
| Dec 12, 2024 | 42 m | — | 36 m |
| Dec 19, 2024 | 59 m | — | 51 m |
| Jan 4, 2025 | 55 m | — | 42 m |
| Jan 8, 2025 | 87 m | — | 68 m |
| Jan 19, 2025 | 68 m | — | 27 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
68 m
Deepest dive
4:19
Longest dive
137
Dives
17 m
Avg dive depth
9
Sightings
51
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 (87 m) and the published dive-behaviour distribution. Modelled, not measured.
Deep Effort Score
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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
Source records
This activity is assembled from 9 catalogued encounters on Happywhale.