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South Africa

HW-MN0805446 – Residency

4th sighting in South Africa
Fluke of HW-MN0805446
HW-MN0805446 Confirmed in the catalog @147058
Nov 8 – Dec 22, 2025 · South Africa

South Africa · Nov – Dec 2025

53 m
Deepest dive
3:01
Longest dive
64
Dives
Sightings
4
Days between first and last sighting
44
Deepest dive on record
53 m · this residency

Dive stats modelled within real depth limits — not measured

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SightingSeafloorSea tempDeepest dive (modelled)
Nov 8, 202589 m—53 m
Nov 13, 202559 m—50 m
Dec 11, 202537 m—30 m
Dec 22, 202571 m—51 m

Seafloor and sea temperature measured · ✳ dives modelled

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Deepest dive against the seafloor, per sighting

Seafloor · measured Deepest dive · modelled
Nov 8, 2025 — seafloor 89 m (measured), deepest dive 53 m (modelled)Nov 8Nov 13, 2025 — seafloor 59 m (measured), deepest dive 50 m (modelled)Nov 13Dec 11, 2025 — seafloor 37 m (measured), deepest dive 30 m (modelled)Dec 11Dec 22, 2025 — seafloor 71 m (measured), deepest dive 51 m (modelled)Dec 22

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

Dives

53 m
Deepest dive
3:01
Longest dive
64
Dives
19 m
Avg dive depth
4
Sightings
44
Days first → last

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Dive profile

modelled
05010053 mstartdive sequence (illustrative)

Depth shaped by the seafloor limit here (89 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 · Nov 8, 2025

measured
Seafloor depth
89 m
Sea-surface temperature
—
Distance from shore
7.0 km

Across the residency · 4 sightings

measured
Seafloor depth
37 m – 89 m
Sea-surface temperature
—
Distance from shore
2.0 km – 7.0 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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