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Gulf of Maine

Tripod – Residency

25th sighting in Gulf of Maine
Fluke of Tripod
Tripod Confirmed in the catalog @10670
Jul 18 – Sep 12, 2026 · Gulf of Maine

Silver Water Season

Sand eels running thick, whole shelf lit up silver — I never miss this.

42 m
Deepest dive
1:57
Longest dive
71
Dives
Sightings
4
Days between first and last sighting
56

Dive stats modelled within real depth limits — not measured

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SightingSeafloorSea tempDeepest dive (modelled)
Jul 18, 202649 m19.1°C42 m
Sep 10, 202631 m19.7°C28 m
Sep 12, 202640 m19.0°C37 m
Sep 12, 202649 m—36 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 18, 2026 — seafloor 49 m (measured), deepest dive 42 m (modelled)Jul 18Sep 10, 2026 — seafloor 31 m (measured), deepest dive 28 m (modelled)Sep 10Sep 12, 2026 — seafloor 40 m (measured), deepest dive 37 m (modelled)Sep 12Sep 12, 2026 — seafloor 49 m (measured), deepest dive 36 m (modelled)Sep 12

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

Dives

42 m
Deepest dive
1:57
Longest dive
71
Dives
17 m
Avg dive depth
4
Sightings
56
Days first → last

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Dive profile

modelled
0255042 mstartdive sequence (illustrative)

Depth shaped by the seafloor limit here (49 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 18, 2026

measured
Seafloor depth
49 m
Sea-surface temperature
19.1°C
Distance from shore
5.0 km

Across the residency · 4 sightings

measured
Seafloor depth
31 m – 49 m
Sea-surface temperature
19.0°C – 19.7°C
Distance from shore
5.0 km – 20.0 km

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

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Source records

This activity is assembled from 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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