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Gulf of Maine

Pele – Residency

25th sighting in Gulf of Maine
Fluke of Pele
Pele Confirmed in the catalog @11018
May 20 – Aug 19, 2023 · Gulf of Maine

Gulf of Maine · May – Aug 2023

38 m
Deepest dive
1:50
Longest dive
81
Dives
Sightings
6
Days between first and last sighting
91

Dive stats modelled within real depth limits — not measured

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SightingSeafloorSea tempDeepest dive (modelled)
May 20, 202327 m—24 m
Jun 11, 202328 m—26 m
Jun 26, 202356 m—33 m
Jul 3, 202373 m—30 m
Aug 9, 202343 m—38 m
Aug 19, 202330 m—27 m

Seafloor and sea temperature measured · ✳ dives modelled

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Deepest dive against the seafloor, per sighting

Seafloor · measured Deepest dive · modelled
May 20, 2023 — seafloor 27 m (measured), deepest dive 24 m (modelled)May 20Jun 11, 2023 — seafloor 28 m (measured), deepest dive 26 m (modelled)Jun 11Jun 26, 2023 — seafloor 56 m (measured), deepest dive 33 m (modelled)Jun 26Jul 3, 2023 — seafloor 73 m (measured), deepest dive 30 m (modelled)Jul 3Aug 9, 2023 — seafloor 43 m (measured), deepest dive 38 m (modelled)Aug 9Aug 19, 2023 — seafloor 30 m (measured), deepest dive 27 m (modelled)Aug 19

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

Dives

38 m
Deepest dive
1:50
Longest dive
81
Dives
17 m
Avg dive depth
6
Sightings
91
Days first → last

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Dive profile

modelled
0255038 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 9, 2023

measured
Seafloor depth
43 m
Sea-surface temperature
—
Distance from shore
9.0 km

Across the residency · 6 sightings

measured
Seafloor depth
27 m – 73 m
Sea-surface temperature
—
Distance from shore
9.0 km – 34.0 km

Sources: GEBCO seafloor grid · PacIOOS coastline distance

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Source records

This activity is assembled from 6 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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