2025 Bravo – Residency
9th sighting in South Africa
2025 Bravo @141801
Jul 28 – Aug 21, 2025 · South Africa
South Africa · Jul – Aug 2025
40 m
Deepest dive
1:31
Longest dive
111
Dives
- Sightings
- 9
- Days between first and last sighting
- 24
- Deepest dive on record
- 40 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) |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 28, 2025 | 19 m | — | 17 m |
| Aug 6, 2025 | 22 m | — | 19 m |
| Aug 10, 2025 | 21 m | — | 18 m |
| Aug 12, 2025 | 24 m | — | 16 m |
| Aug 13, 2025 | 25 m | — | 17 m |
| Aug 14, 2025 | 44 m | — | 40 m |
| Aug 15, 2025 | 21 m | — | 18 m |
| Aug 17, 2025 | 20 m | — | 18 m |
| Aug 21, 2025 | 37 m | — | 31 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
40 m
Deepest dive
1:31
Longest dive
111
Dives
12 m
Avg dive depth
9
Sightings
24
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 (44 m) and the published dive-behaviour distribution. Modelled, not measured.
Deep Effort Score
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Where this happened · Aug 14, 2025
measured- Seafloor depth
- 44 m
- Sea-surface temperature
- —
- Distance from shore
- 11.0 km
Across the residency · 9 sightings
measured- Seafloor depth
- 19 m – 44 m
- Sea-surface temperature
- —
- Distance from shore
- 8.0 km – 11.0 km
Sources: GEBCO seafloor grid · PacIOOS coastline distance
Source records
This activity is assembled from 9 catalogued encounters on Happywhale.