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South Africa

HW-MN0800624 – Residency

14th sighting in South Africa
Fluke of HW-MN0800624
HW-MN0800624 Confirmed in the catalog @76418
Nov 8, 2023 – Jan 19, 2024 · South Africa

South Africa · Nov 2023 – Jan 2024

86 m
Deepest dive
3:50
Longest dive
173
Dives
Sightings
10
Days between first and last sighting
72
Deepest dive on record
86 m · this residency

Dive stats modelled within real depth limits — not measured

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SightingSeafloorSea tempDeepest dive (modelled)
Nov 8, 202356 m—47 m
Nov 8, 202356 m—26 m
Nov 9, 202352 m—42 m
Dec 1, 202355 m—45 m
Jan 2, 202479 m—55 m
Jan 4, 202466 m—36 m
Jan 7, 202487 m—80 m
Jan 9, 202464 m—50 m
Jan 11, 202494 m—86 m
Jan 19, 202463 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 8, 2023 — seafloor 56 m (measured), deepest dive 47 m (modelled)Nov 8Nov 8, 2023 — seafloor 56 m (measured), deepest dive 26 m (modelled)Nov 8Nov 9, 2023 — seafloor 52 m (measured), deepest dive 42 m (modelled)Nov 9Dec 1, 2023 — seafloor 55 m (measured), deepest dive 45 m (modelled)Dec 1Jan 2, 2024 — seafloor 79 m (measured), deepest dive 55 m (modelled)Jan 2Jan 4, 2024 — seafloor 66 m (measured), deepest dive 36 m (modelled)Jan 4Jan 7, 2024 — seafloor 87 m (measured), deepest dive 80 m (modelled)Jan 7Jan 9, 2024 — seafloor 64 m (measured), deepest dive 50 m (modelled)Jan 9Jan 11, 2024 — seafloor 94 m (measured), deepest dive 86 m (modelled)Jan 11Jan 19, 2024 — seafloor 63 m (measured), deepest dive 47 m (modelled)Jan 19

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

Dives

86 m
Deepest dive
3:50
Longest dive
173
Dives
22 m
Avg dive depth
10
Sightings
72
Days first → last

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Dive profile

modelled
05010086 mstartdive sequence (illustrative)

Depth shaped by the seafloor limit here (94 m) and the published dive-behaviour distribution. Modelled, not measured.

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Deep

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Place

Where this happened · Jan 11, 2024

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

Across the residency · 10 sightings

measured
Seafloor depth
52 m – 94 m
Sea-surface temperature
—
Distance from shore
2.0 km – 12.0 km

Sources: GEBCO seafloor grid · 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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