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South Africa

HW-MN0801863 – Residency

7th sighting in South Africa
Fluke of HW-MN0801863
HW-MN0801863 Confirmed in the catalog @89343
Nov 7 – Dec 4, 2024 · South Africa

South Africa · Nov – Dec 2024

79 m
Deepest dive
3:25
Longest dive
43
Dives
Sightings
4
Days between first and last sighting
27
Deepest dive on record
79 m · this residency

Dive stats modelled within real depth limits — not measured

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SightingSeafloorSea tempDeepest dive (modelled)
Nov 7, 202455 m—46 m
Nov 17, 202471 m—27 m
Dec 3, 202486 m—79 m
Dec 4, 202439 m—33 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 7, 2024 — seafloor 55 m (measured), deepest dive 46 m (modelled)Nov 7Nov 17, 2024 — seafloor 71 m (measured), deepest dive 27 m (modelled)Nov 17Dec 3, 2024 — seafloor 86 m (measured), deepest dive 79 m (modelled)Dec 3Dec 4, 2024 — seafloor 39 m (measured), deepest dive 33 m (modelled)Dec 4

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

Dives

79 m
Deepest dive
3:25
Longest dive
43
Dives
23 m
Avg dive depth
4
Sightings
27
Days first → last

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Dive profile

modelled
05010079 mstartdive sequence (illustrative)

Depth shaped by the seafloor limit here (86 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 3, 2024

measured
Seafloor depth
86 m
Sea-surface temperature
—
Distance from shore
3.0 km

Across the residency · 4 sightings

measured
Seafloor depth
39 m – 86 m
Sea-surface temperature
—
Distance from shore
2.0 km – 5.0 km

Sources: GEBCO seafloor grid · PacIOOS coastline distance

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Source records

This activity is assembled from 4 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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