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South Africa

HW-MN0804637 – Residency

4th sighting in South Africa
Fluke of HW-MN0804637
HW-MN0804637 Confirmed in the catalog @132774
Dec 17, 2024 – Mar 28, 2025 · South Africa

South Africa · Dec 2024 – Mar 2025

63 m
Deepest dive
2:56
Longest dive
59
Dives
Sightings
4
Days between first and last sighting
101

Dive stats modelled within real depth limits — not measured

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SightingSeafloorSea tempDeepest dive (modelled)
Dec 17, 202470 m—57 m
Jan 5, 202567 m—58 m
Jan 25, 202569 m—38 m
Mar 28, 202598 m—63 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 17, 2024 — seafloor 70 m (measured), deepest dive 57 m (modelled)Dec 17Jan 5, 2025 — seafloor 67 m (measured), deepest dive 58 m (modelled)Jan 5Jan 25, 2025 — seafloor 69 m (measured), deepest dive 38 m (modelled)Jan 25Mar 28, 2025 — seafloor 98 m (measured), deepest dive 63 m (modelled)Mar 28

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

Dives

63 m
Deepest dive
2:56
Longest dive
59
Dives
21 m
Avg dive depth
4
Sightings
101
Days first → last

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Dive profile

modelled
05010063 mstartdive sequence (illustrative)

Depth shaped by the seafloor limit here (98 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 · Mar 28, 2025

measured
Seafloor depth
98 m
Sea-surface temperature
—
Distance from shore
6.0 km

Across the residency · 4 sightings

measured
Seafloor depth
67 m – 98 m
Sea-surface temperature
—
Distance from shore
6.0 km – 12.0 km

Sources: GEBCO seafloor grid · PacIOOS coastline distance

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Source records

This activity is assembled from 4 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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