2025 Hotel – Residency
3rd sighting in South Africa
2025 Hotel @142917
Aug 7 – 15, 2025 · South Africa
South Africa · Aug 2025
31 m
Deepest dive
1:35
Longest dive
17
Dives
- Sightings
- 3
- Days between first and last sighting
- 8
- Deepest dive on record
- 31 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 7, 2025 | 21 m | — | 17 m |
| Aug 14, 2025 | 35 m | — | 31 m |
| Aug 15, 2025 | 29 m | — | 21 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
31 m
Deepest dive
1:35
Longest dive
17
Dives
14 m
Avg dive depth
3
Sightings
8
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 (35 m) and the published dive-behaviour distribution. Modelled, not measured.
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Where this happened · Aug 14, 2025
measured- Seafloor depth
- 35 m
- Sea-surface temperature
- —
- Distance from shore
- 9.0 km
Across the residency · 3 sightings
measured- Seafloor depth
- 21 m – 35 m
- Sea-surface temperature
- —
- Distance from shore
- 9.0 km
Sources: GEBCO seafloor grid · PacIOOS coastline distance
Source records
This activity is assembled from 3 catalogued encounters on Happywhale.