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South Africa

HW-MN0801875 – Residency

5th sighting in South Africa
Fluke of HW-MN0801875
HW-MN0801875 Confirmed in the catalog @89355
Dec 11 – 22, 2022 · South Africa

South Africa · Dec 2022

67 m
Deepest dive
2:46
Longest dive
50
Dives
Sightings
5
Days between first and last sighting
11
Deepest dive on record
67 m · this residency

Dive stats modelled within real depth limits — not measured

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SightingSeafloorSea tempDeepest dive (modelled)
Dec 11, 202283 m—50 m
Dec 12, 202273 m—56 m
Dec 20, 202232 m—16 m
Dec 21, 202273 m—67 m
Dec 22, 202235 m—28 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 11, 2022 — seafloor 83 m (measured), deepest dive 50 m (modelled)Dec 11Dec 12, 2022 — seafloor 73 m (measured), deepest dive 56 m (modelled)Dec 12Dec 20, 2022 — seafloor 32 m (measured), deepest dive 16 m (modelled)Dec 20Dec 21, 2022 — seafloor 73 m (measured), deepest dive 67 m (modelled)Dec 21Dec 22, 2022 — seafloor 35 m (measured), deepest dive 28 m (modelled)Dec 22

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

Dives

67 m
Deepest dive
2:46
Longest dive
50
Dives
22 m
Avg dive depth
5
Sightings
11
Days first → last

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Dive profile

modelled
05010067 mstartdive sequence (illustrative)

Depth shaped by the seafloor limit here (73 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 21, 2022

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

Across the residency · 5 sightings

measured
Seafloor depth
32 m – 83 m
Sea-surface temperature
—
Distance from shore
2.0 km – 8.0 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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