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South Africa

HW-MN0800624 – Residency

17th sighting in South Africa
Fluke of HW-MN0800624
HW-MN0800624 Confirmed in the catalog @76418
Nov 24 – 25, 2025 · South Africa

South Africa · Nov 2025

40 m
Deepest dive
1:33
Longest dive
23
Dives
Sightings
2
Days between first and last sighting
1

Dive stats modelled within real depth limits — not measured

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SightingSeafloorSea tempDeepest dive (modelled)
Nov 24, 202561 m—40 m
Nov 25, 202557 m—38 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 24, 2025 — seafloor 61 m (measured), deepest dive 40 m (modelled)Nov 24Nov 25, 2025 — seafloor 57 m (measured), deepest dive 38 m (modelled)Nov 25

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

Dives

40 m
Deepest dive
1:33
Longest dive
23
Dives
18 m
Avg dive depth
2
Sightings
1
Days first → last

Dive metrics are modelled within real depth limits — not measured

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Dive profile

modelled
0255040 mstartdive sequence (illustrative)

Depth shaped by the seafloor limit here (61 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 24, 2025

measured
Seafloor depth
61 m
Sea-surface temperature
—
Distance from shore
5.0 km

Across the residency · 2 sightings

measured
Seafloor depth
57 m – 61 m
Sea-surface temperature
—
Distance from shore
5.0 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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