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Madagascar & Mascarenes

Vin – Residency

5th sighting in Madagascar & Mascarenes
Fluke of Vin
Vin Confirmed in the catalog @93799
Jul 23 – 31, 2025 · Madagascar & Mascarenes

Madagascar & Mascarenes · Jul 2025

192 m
Deepest dive
8:08
Longest dive
60
Dives
Sightings
3
Days between first and last sighting
9
Deepest dive on record
192 m · this residency

Dive stats modelled within real depth limits — not measured

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SightingSeafloorSea tempDeepest dive (modelled)
Jul 23, 20251,178 m—120 m
Jul 23, 202528 m—24 m
Jul 31, 2025868 m—192 m

Seafloor and sea temperature measured · ✳ dives modelled

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Deepest dive against the seafloor, per sighting

Seafloor · measured Deepest dive · modelled
Jul 23, 2025 — seafloor 1,178 m (measured), deepest dive 120 m (modelled)Jul 23Jul 23, 2025 — seafloor 28 m (measured), deepest dive 24 m (modelled)Jul 23Jul 31, 2025 — seafloor 868 m (measured), deepest dive 192 m (modelled)Jul 31

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

Dives

192 m
Deepest dive
8:08
Longest dive
60
Dives
23 m
Avg dive depth
3
Sightings
9
Days first → last

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Dive profile

modelled
0100200192 mstartdive sequence (illustrative)

Depth shaped by the seafloor limit here (868 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 · Jul 31, 2025

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

Across the residency · 3 sightings

measured
Seafloor depth
28 m – 1,178 m
Sea-surface temperature
—
Distance from shore
1.0 km – 13.0 km

Sources: GEBCO seafloor grid · PacIOOS coastline distance

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Source records

This activity is assembled from 3 catalogued encounters on Happywhale.

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