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South Africa

HW-MN0804567 – Residency

5th sighting in South Africa
Fluke of HW-MN0804567
HW-MN0804567 Confirmed in the catalog @132271
Nov 30 – Dec 14, 2024 · South Africa

South Africa · Nov – Dec 2024

66 m
Deepest dive
2:38
Longest dive
62
Dives
Sightings
5
Days between first and last sighting
14
Deepest dive on record
66 m · this residency

Dive stats modelled within real depth limits — not measured

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SightingSeafloorSea tempDeepest dive (modelled)
Nov 30, 202480 m—66 m
Nov 30, 202448 m—44 m
Dec 12, 202441 m—38 m
Dec 14, 202478 m—51 m
Dec 14, 202478 m—61 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 30, 2024 — seafloor 80 m (measured), deepest dive 66 m (modelled)Nov 30Nov 30, 2024 — seafloor 48 m (measured), deepest dive 44 m (modelled)Nov 30Dec 12, 2024 — seafloor 41 m (measured), deepest dive 38 m (modelled)Dec 12Dec 14, 2024 — seafloor 78 m (measured), deepest dive 51 m (modelled)Dec 14Dec 14, 2024 — seafloor 78 m (measured), deepest dive 61 m (modelled)Dec 14

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

Dives

66 m
Deepest dive
2:38
Longest dive
62
Dives
25 m
Avg dive depth
5
Sightings
14
Days first → last

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Dive profile

modelled
05010066 mstartdive sequence (illustrative)

Depth shaped by the seafloor limit here (80 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 · Nov 30, 2024

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

Across the residency · 5 sightings

measured
Seafloor depth
41 m – 80 m
Sea-surface temperature
—
Distance from shore
2.0 km – 3.0 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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