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Gulf of Maine

Motley – Residency

8th sighting in Gulf of Maine
Fluke of Motley
Motley Confirmed in the catalog @10664
Jul 5 – Sep 2, 2026 · Gulf of Maine

Gulf of Maine, all summer long

Camera-shy I am not — caught here again and again, feeding like it's my job.

82 m
Deepest dive
2:39
Longest dive
68
Dives
Sightings
8
Days between first and last sighting
59
Deepest dive on record
82 m · this residency

Dive stats modelled within real depth limits — not measured

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SightingSeafloorSea tempDeepest dive (modelled)
Jul 5, 2026186 m14.1°C82 m
Jul 13, 202659 m14.5°C38 m
Aug 6, 202615 m14.7°C12 m
Aug 7, 2026107 m15.0°C36 m
Aug 9, 202625 m17.8°C23 m
Aug 29, 202646 m15.3°C37 m
Sep 1, 202617 m14.3°C15 m
Sep 2, 202611 m14.3°C10 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 5, 2026 — seafloor 186 m (measured), deepest dive 82 m (modelled)Jul 5Jul 13, 2026 — seafloor 59 m (measured), deepest dive 38 m (modelled)Jul 13Aug 6, 2026 — seafloor 15 m (measured), deepest dive 12 m (modelled)Aug 6Aug 7, 2026 — seafloor 107 m (measured), deepest dive 36 m (modelled)Aug 7Aug 9, 2026 — seafloor 25 m (measured), deepest dive 23 m (modelled)Aug 9Aug 29, 2026 — seafloor 46 m (measured), deepest dive 37 m (modelled)Aug 29Sep 1, 2026 — seafloor 17 m (measured), deepest dive 15 m (modelled)Sep 1Sep 2, 2026 — seafloor 11 m (measured), deepest dive 10 m (modelled)Sep 2

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

Dives

82 m
Deepest dive
2:39
Longest dive
68
Dives
17 m
Avg dive depth
8
Sightings
59
Days first → last

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Dive profile

modelled
05010082 mstartdive sequence (illustrative)

Depth shaped by the seafloor limit here (186 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 5, 2026

measured
Seafloor depth
186 m
Sea-surface temperature
14.1°C
Distance from shore
13.0 km

Across the residency · 8 sightings

measured
Seafloor depth
11 m – 186 m
Sea-surface temperature
14.1°C – 17.8°C
Distance from shore
2.0 km – 13.0 km

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

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Source records

This activity is assembled from 8 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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