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South Africa

HW-MN0800755 – Residency

4th sighting in South Africa
Fluke of HW-MN0800755
HW-MN0800755 Confirmed in the catalog @77786
Dec 14 – 21, 2022 · South Africa

South Africa · Dec 2022

63 m
Deepest dive
2:31
Longest dive
35
Dives
Sightings
3
Days between first and last sighting
7

Dive stats modelled within real depth limits — not measured

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SightingSeafloorSea tempDeepest dive (modelled)
Dec 14, 202270 m—61 m
Dec 14, 202269 m—63 m
Dec 21, 202264 m—31 m

Seafloor and sea temperature measured · ✳ dives modelled

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Deepest dive against the seafloor, per sighting

Seafloor · measured Deepest dive · modelled
Dec 14, 2022 — seafloor 70 m (measured), deepest dive 61 m (modelled)Dec 14Dec 14, 2022 — seafloor 69 m (measured), deepest dive 63 m (modelled)Dec 14Dec 21, 2022 — seafloor 64 m (measured), deepest dive 31 m (modelled)Dec 21

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

Dives

63 m
Deepest dive
2:31
Longest dive
35
Dives
17 m
Avg dive depth
3
Sightings
7
Days first → last

Dive metrics are modelled within real depth limits — not measured

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Dive profile

modelled
05010063 mstartdive sequence (illustrative)

Depth shaped by the seafloor limit here (69 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 14, 2022

measured
Seafloor depth
69 m
Sea-surface temperature
—
Distance from shore
8.0 km

Across the residency · 3 sightings

measured
Seafloor depth
64 m – 70 m
Sea-surface temperature
—
Distance from shore
4.0 km – 8.0 km

Sources: GEBCO seafloor grid · PacIOOS coastline distance

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Source records

This activity is assembled from 3 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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