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South Africa

HW-MN0801647 – Residency

5th sighting in South Africa
Fluke of HW-MN0801647
HW-MN0801647 Confirmed in the catalog @85762
Jan 2 – 21, 2024 · South Africa

South Africa · Jan 2024

73 m
Deepest dive
3:27
Longest dive
61
Dives
Sightings
5
Days between first and last sighting
19
Deepest dive on record
73 m · this residency

Dive stats modelled within real depth limits — not measured

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SightingSeafloorSea tempDeepest dive (modelled)
Jan 2, 202479 m—71 m
Jan 4, 202466 m—41 m
Jan 7, 202480 m—73 m
Jan 13, 202453 m—38 m
Jan 21, 202485 m—67 m

Seafloor and sea temperature measured · ✳ dives modelled

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Deepest dive against the seafloor, per sighting

Seafloor · measured Deepest dive · modelled
Jan 2, 2024 — seafloor 79 m (measured), deepest dive 71 m (modelled)Jan 2Jan 4, 2024 — seafloor 66 m (measured), deepest dive 41 m (modelled)Jan 4Jan 7, 2024 — seafloor 80 m (measured), deepest dive 73 m (modelled)Jan 7Jan 13, 2024 — seafloor 53 m (measured), deepest dive 38 m (modelled)Jan 13Jan 21, 2024 — seafloor 85 m (measured), deepest dive 67 m (modelled)Jan 21

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

Dives

73 m
Deepest dive
3:27
Longest dive
61
Dives
21 m
Avg dive depth
5
Sightings
19
Days first → last

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Dive profile

modelled
05010073 mstartdive sequence (illustrative)

Depth shaped by the seafloor limit here (80 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 · Jan 7, 2024

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

Across the residency · 5 sightings

measured
Seafloor depth
53 m – 85 m
Sea-surface temperature
—
Distance from shore
4.0 km – 13.0 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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