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South Africa

Arequipe – Residency

10th sighting in South Africa
Fluke of Arequipe
Arequipe Confirmed in the catalog @148129
Nov 11, 2025 – Feb 10, 2026 · South Africa

South Africa · Nov 2025 – Feb 2026

69 m
Deepest dive
3:24
Longest dive
112
Dives
Sightings
10
Days between first and last sighting
91
Deepest dive on record
69 m · this residency

Dive stats modelled within real depth limits — not measured

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SightingSeafloorSea tempDeepest dive (modelled)
Nov 11, 202518 m—16 m
Nov 17, 202515 m—10 m
Dec 29, 202545 m—30 m
Dec 30, 202562 m—51 m
Jan 2, 202687 m15.6°C63 m
Jan 26, 202671 m15.1°C45 m
Jan 27, 202699 m16.4°C47 m
Jan 29, 202664 m14.7°C58 m
Feb 7, 202682 m16.8°C65 m
Feb 10, 202678 m16.2°C69 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 11, 2025 — seafloor 18 m (measured), deepest dive 16 m (modelled)Nov 11Nov 17, 2025 — seafloor 15 m (measured), deepest dive 10 m (modelled)Nov 17Dec 29, 2025 — seafloor 45 m (measured), deepest dive 30 m (modelled)Dec 29Dec 30, 2025 — seafloor 62 m (measured), deepest dive 51 m (modelled)Dec 30Jan 2, 2026 — seafloor 87 m (measured), deepest dive 63 m (modelled)Jan 2Jan 26, 2026 — seafloor 71 m (measured), deepest dive 45 m (modelled)Jan 26Jan 27, 2026 — seafloor 99 m (measured), deepest dive 47 m (modelled)Jan 27Jan 29, 2026 — seafloor 64 m (measured), deepest dive 58 m (modelled)Jan 29Feb 7, 2026 — seafloor 82 m (measured), deepest dive 65 m (modelled)Feb 7Feb 10, 2026 — seafloor 78 m (measured), deepest dive 69 m (modelled)Feb 10

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

Dives

69 m
Deepest dive
3:24
Longest dive
112
Dives
20 m
Avg dive depth
10
Sightings
91
Days first → last

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Dive profile

modelled
05010069 mstartdive sequence (illustrative)

Depth shaped by the seafloor limit here (78 m) and the published dive-behaviour distribution. Modelled, not measured.

Deep Effort Score

Deep

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Place

Where this happened · Feb 10, 2026

measured
Seafloor depth
78 m
Sea-surface temperature
16.2°C
Distance from shore
5.0 km

Across the residency · 10 sightings

measured
Seafloor depth
15 m – 99 m
Sea-surface temperature
14.7°C – 16.8°C
Distance from shore
1.0 km – 14.0 km

Sources: GEBCO seafloor grid · NOAA OISST sea temperature · PacIOOS coastline distance

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Source records

This activity is assembled from 10 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.

The photographs and fluke identifications behind every sighting are the work of the contributing observers — the citizen scientists, naturalists and operators who logged them, each named in the underlying GBIF occurrence record. Every activity links out to its source encounters on Happywhale. Basemaps © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL).

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