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South Africa

HW-MN0805627 – Residency

2nd sighting in South Africa
Fluke of HW-MN0805627
HW-MN0805627 Confirmed in the catalog @148978
Nov 29 – Dec 30, 2025 · South Africa

South Africa · Nov – Dec 2025

47 m
Deepest dive
2:29
Longest dive
13
Dives
Sightings
2
Days between first and last sighting
31
Deepest dive on record
47 m · this residency

Dive stats modelled within real depth limits — not measured

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SightingSeafloorSea tempDeepest dive (modelled)
Nov 29, 2025-22 m——
Dec 30, 202562 m—47 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 29, 2025 — seafloor -22 m (measured), deepest dive — (modelled)Nov 29Dec 30, 2025 — seafloor 62 m (measured), deepest dive 47 m (modelled)Dec 30

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

Dives

47 m
Deepest dive
2:29
Longest dive
13
Dives
21 m
Avg dive depth
2
Sightings
31
Days first → last

Dive metrics are modelled within real depth limits — not measured

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Dive profile

modelled
0255047 mstartdive sequence (illustrative)

Depth shaped by the seafloor limit here (62 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 · Dec 30, 2025

measured
Seafloor depth
62 m
Sea-surface temperature
—
Distance from shore
9.0 km

Across the residency · 2 sightings

measured
Seafloor depth
-22 m – 62 m
Sea-surface temperature
—
Distance from shore
1.0 km – 9.0 km

Sources: GEBCO seafloor grid · PacIOOS coastline distance

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Source records

This activity is assembled from 2 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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