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South Africa

HW-MN0804898 – Residency

3rd sighting in South Africa
Fluke of HW-MN0804898
HW-MN0804898 Confirmed in the catalog @133924
Jan 18 – 25, 2025 · South Africa

South Africa · Jan 2025

41 m
Deepest dive
1:45
Longest dive
21
Dives
Sightings
3
Days between first and last sighting
7
Deepest dive on record
41 m · this residency

Dive stats modelled within real depth limits — not measured

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SightingSeafloorSea tempDeepest dive (modelled)
Jan 18, 202566 m—38 m
Jan 18, 202583 m—31 m
Jan 25, 202569 m—41 m

Seafloor and sea temperature measured · ✳ dives modelled

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Deepest dive against the seafloor, per sighting

Seafloor · measured Deepest dive · modelled
Jan 18, 2025 — seafloor 66 m (measured), deepest dive 38 m (modelled)Jan 18Jan 18, 2025 — seafloor 83 m (measured), deepest dive 31 m (modelled)Jan 18Jan 25, 2025 — seafloor 69 m (measured), deepest dive 41 m (modelled)Jan 25

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

Dives

41 m
Deepest dive
1:45
Longest dive
21
Dives
16 m
Avg dive depth
3
Sightings
7
Days first → last

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Dive profile

modelled
0255041 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 · Jan 25, 2025

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

Across the residency · 3 sightings

measured
Seafloor depth
66 m – 83 m
Sea-surface temperature
—
Distance from shore
5.0 km – 11.0 km

Sources: GEBCO seafloor grid · PacIOOS coastline distance

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Source records

This activity is assembled from 3 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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