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South Africa

HW-MN0801293 – Residency

4th sighting in South Africa
Fluke of HW-MN0801293
HW-MN0801293 Confirmed in the catalog @83864
Nov 6 – Dec 30, 2025 · South Africa

South Africa · Nov – Dec 2025

51 m
Deepest dive
2:18
Longest dive
28
Dives
Sightings
5
Days between first and last sighting
54

Dive stats modelled within real depth limits — not measured

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SightingSeafloorSea tempDeepest dive (modelled)
Nov 6, 202591 m—51 m
Dec 16, 202537 m—25 m
Dec 29, 202561 m—47 m
Dec 29, 202545 m—35 m
Dec 30, 202526 m—22 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 6, 2025 — seafloor 91 m (measured), deepest dive 51 m (modelled)Nov 6Dec 16, 2025 — seafloor 37 m (measured), deepest dive 25 m (modelled)Dec 16Dec 29, 2025 — seafloor 61 m (measured), deepest dive 47 m (modelled)Dec 29Dec 29, 2025 — seafloor 45 m (measured), deepest dive 35 m (modelled)Dec 29Dec 30, 2025 — seafloor 26 m (measured), deepest dive 22 m (modelled)Dec 30

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

Dives

51 m
Deepest dive
2:18
Longest dive
28
Dives
18 m
Avg dive depth
5
Sightings
54
Days first → last

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Dive profile

modelled
05010051 mstartdive sequence (illustrative)

Depth shaped by the seafloor limit here (91 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 6, 2025

measured
Seafloor depth
91 m
Sea-surface temperature
—
Distance from shore
18.0 km

Across the residency · 5 sightings

measured
Seafloor depth
26 m – 91 m
Sea-surface temperature
—
Distance from shore
3.0 km – 18.0 km

Sources: GEBCO seafloor grid · PacIOOS coastline distance

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Source records

This activity is assembled from 5 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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