2025 Charlie – Residency
12th sighting in South Africa
2025 Charlie @142207
Aug 6 – 21, 2025 · South Africa
South Africa · Aug 2025
34 m
Deepest dive
1:43
Longest dive
130
Dives
- Sightings
- 12
- Days between first and last sighting
- 15
- Deepest dive on record
- 34 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) |
|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 6, 2025 | 40 m | — | 34 m |
| Aug 7, 2025 | 24 m | — | 20 m |
| Aug 8, 2025 | 21 m | — | 16 m |
| Aug 8, 2025 | 20 m | — | 15 m |
| Aug 10, 2025 | 22 m | — | 18 m |
| Aug 11, 2025 | 23 m | — | 18 m |
| Aug 13, 2025 | 34 m | — | 31 m |
| Aug 15, 2025 | 22 m | — | 20 m |
| Aug 17, 2025 | 16 m | — | 14 m |
| Aug 18, 2025 | 29 m | — | 26 m |
| Aug 19, 2025 | 29 m | — | 17 m |
| Aug 21, 2025 | 44 m | — | 27 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
34 m
Deepest dive
1:43
Longest dive
130
Dives
13 m
Avg dive depth
12
Sightings
15
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 (40 m) and the published dive-behaviour distribution. Modelled, not measured.
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Where this happened · Aug 6, 2025
measured- Seafloor depth
- 40 m
- Sea-surface temperature
- —
- Distance from shore
- 7.0 km
Across the residency · 12 sightings
measured- Seafloor depth
- 16 m – 44 m
- Sea-surface temperature
- —
- Distance from shore
- 7.0 km – 11.0 km
Sources: GEBCO seafloor grid · PacIOOS coastline distance
Source records
This activity is assembled from 12 catalogued encounters on Happywhale.