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South Africa

HW-MN0804444 – Residency

5th sighting in South Africa
Fluke of HW-MN0804444
HW-MN0804444 Confirmed in the catalog @131896
Dec 4, 2024 – Jan 18, 2025 · South Africa

South Africa · Dec 2024 – Jan 2025

54 m
Deepest dive
2:42
Longest dive
46
Dives
Sightings
5
Days between first and last sighting
45

Dive stats modelled within real depth limits — not measured

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SightingSeafloorSea tempDeepest dive (modelled)
Dec 4, 202439 m—34 m
Dec 17, 202469 m—54 m
Dec 19, 202459 m—36 m
Jan 17, 2025-8 m——
Jan 18, 202585 m—38 m

Seafloor and sea temperature measured · ✳ dives modelled

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Deepest dive against the seafloor, per sighting

Seafloor · measured Deepest dive · modelled
Dec 4, 2024 — seafloor 39 m (measured), deepest dive 34 m (modelled)Dec 4Dec 17, 2024 — seafloor 69 m (measured), deepest dive 54 m (modelled)Dec 17Dec 19, 2024 — seafloor 59 m (measured), deepest dive 36 m (modelled)Dec 19Jan 17, 2025 — seafloor -8 m (measured), deepest dive — (modelled)Jan 17Jan 18, 2025 — seafloor 85 m (measured), deepest dive 38 m (modelled)Jan 18

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

Dives

54 m
Deepest dive
2:42
Longest dive
46
Dives
17 m
Avg dive depth
5
Sightings
45
Days first → last

Dive metrics are modelled within real depth limits — not measured

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Dive profile

modelled
05010054 mstartdive sequence (illustrative)

Depth shaped by the seafloor limit here (69 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 17, 2024

measured
Seafloor depth
69 m
Sea-surface temperature
—
Distance from shore
2.0 km

Across the residency · 5 sightings

measured
Seafloor depth
-8 m – 85 m
Sea-surface temperature
—
Distance from shore
2.0 km – 11.0 km

Sources: GEBCO seafloor grid · PacIOOS coastline distance

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Source records

This activity is assembled from 5 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.

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