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South Africa

Lumpy – Residency

11th sighting in South Africa
Fluke of Lumpy
Lumpy Confirmed in the catalog @54045
Oct 4 – 11, 2026 · South Africa

Spring Shelf Delight

Twice this spring, same lazy water, and it felt just right.

52 m
Deepest dive
1:56
Longest dive
22
Dives
Sightings
2
Days between first and last sighting
7

Dive stats modelled within real depth limits — not measured

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SightingSeafloorSea tempDeepest dive (modelled)
Oct 4, 202681 m—52 m
Oct 11, 202669 m—50 m

Seafloor and sea temperature measured · ✳ dives modelled

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Deepest dive against the seafloor, per sighting

Seafloor · measured Deepest dive · modelled
Oct 4, 2026 — seafloor 81 m (measured), deepest dive 52 m (modelled)Oct 4Oct 11, 2026 — seafloor 69 m (measured), deepest dive 50 m (modelled)Oct 11

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

Dives

52 m
Deepest dive
1:56
Longest dive
22
Dives
18 m
Avg dive depth
2
Sightings
7
Days first → last

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Dive profile

modelled
05010052 mstartdive sequence (illustrative)

Depth shaped by the seafloor limit here (81 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 · Oct 4, 2026

measured
Seafloor depth
81 m
Sea-surface temperature
—
Distance from shore
4.0 km

Across the residency · 2 sightings

measured
Seafloor depth
69 m – 81 m
Sea-surface temperature
—
Distance from shore
3.0 km – 4.0 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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