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Gulf of Maine

Chromosome – Residency

29th sighting in Gulf of Maine
Fluke of Chromosome
Chromosome Confirmed in the catalog @11155
Aug 8 – Sep 11, 2026 · Gulf of Maine

August, Like Clockwork

The light gets long, the water turns green, and there I am.

67 m
Deepest dive
3:06
Longest dive
44
Dives
Sightings
4
Days between first and last sighting
34

Dive stats modelled within real depth limits — not measured

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SightingSeafloorSea tempDeepest dive (modelled)
Aug 8, 202677 m20.4°C59 m
Aug 9, 202690 m21.1°C67 m
Aug 20, 202640 m20.7°C35 m
Sep 11, 202698 m—19 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 8, 2026 — seafloor 77 m (measured), deepest dive 59 m (modelled)Aug 8Aug 9, 2026 — seafloor 90 m (measured), deepest dive 67 m (modelled)Aug 9Aug 20, 2026 — seafloor 40 m (measured), deepest dive 35 m (modelled)Aug 20Sep 11, 2026 — seafloor 98 m (measured), deepest dive 19 m (modelled)Sep 11

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

Dives

67 m
Deepest dive
3:06
Longest dive
44
Dives
23 m
Avg dive depth
4
Sightings
34
Days first → last

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Dive profile

modelled
05010067 mstartdive sequence (illustrative)

Depth shaped by the seafloor limit here (90 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, 2026

measured
Seafloor depth
90 m
Sea-surface temperature
21.1°C
Distance from shore
22.0 km

Across the residency · 4 sightings

measured
Seafloor depth
40 m – 98 m
Sea-surface temperature
20.4°C – 21.1°C
Distance from shore
17.0 km – 29.0 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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