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Gulf of Maine

Snap – Residency

10th sighting in Gulf of Maine
Fluke of Snap
Snap Confirmed in the catalog @105520
Aug 24 – Sep 16, 2026 · Gulf of Maine

Green Water, Good Bait

Bait went silver twice this stretch, and I was already there.

36 m
Deepest dive
2:28
Longest dive
35
Dives
Sightings
3
Days between first and last sighting
23

Dive stats modelled within real depth limits — not measured

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SightingSeafloorSea tempDeepest dive (modelled)
Aug 24, 202643 m20.6°C36 m
Sep 12, 202647 m—33 m
Sep 16, 202646 m—34 m

Seafloor and sea temperature measured · ✳ dives modelled

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Deepest dive against the seafloor, per sighting

Seafloor · measured Deepest dive · modelled
Aug 24, 2026 — seafloor 43 m (measured), deepest dive 36 m (modelled)Aug 24Sep 12, 2026 — seafloor 47 m (measured), deepest dive 33 m (modelled)Sep 12Sep 16, 2026 — seafloor 46 m (measured), deepest dive 34 m (modelled)Sep 16

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

Dives

36 m
Deepest dive
2:28
Longest dive
35
Dives
18 m
Avg dive depth
3
Sightings
23
Days first → last

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Dive profile

modelled
0255036 mstartdive sequence (illustrative)

Depth shaped by the seafloor limit here (43 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 · Aug 24, 2026

measured
Seafloor depth
43 m
Sea-surface temperature
20.6°C
Distance from shore
8.0 km

Across the residency · 3 sightings

measured
Seafloor depth
43 m – 47 m
Sea-surface temperature
20.6°C
Distance from shore
8.0 km – 19.0 km

Sources: GEBCO seafloor grid · NASA JPL MUR sea temperature · PacIOOS coastline distance

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Source records

This activity is assembled from 3 catalogued encounters on Happywhale.

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