Curuba – Residency
13th sighting in South Africa
Curuba @130035
Nov 7 – Dec 30, 2025 · South Africa
South Africa · Nov – Dec 2025
88 m
Deepest dive
3:53
Longest dive
73
Dives
- Sightings
- 6
- Days between first and last sighting
- 53
- Deepest dive on record
- 88 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 7, 2025 | 52 m | — | 41 m |
| Nov 22, 2025 | 32 m | — | 29 m |
| Dec 27, 2025 | 109 m | — | 88 m |
| Dec 29, 2025 | 57 m | — | 21 m |
| Dec 29, 2025 | 45 m | — | 41 m |
| Dec 30, 2025 | 46 m | — | 32 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
88 m
Deepest dive
3:53
Longest dive
73
Dives
20 m
Avg dive depth
6
Sightings
53
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 (109 m) and the published dive-behaviour distribution. Modelled, not measured.
Deep Effort Score
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Where this happened · Dec 27, 2025
measured- Seafloor depth
- 109 m
- Sea-surface temperature
- —
- Distance from shore
- 9.0 km
Across the residency · 6 sightings
measured- Seafloor depth
- 32 m – 109 m
- Sea-surface temperature
- —
- Distance from shore
- 3.0 km – 9.0 km
Sources: GEBCO seafloor grid · PacIOOS coastline distance
Source records
This activity is assembled from 6 catalogued encounters on Happywhale.