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Gulf of Maine

Scratch – Residency

4th sighting in Gulf of Maine
Fluke of Scratch
Scratch Confirmed in the catalog @123180
Jun 19 – Jul 10, 2026 · Gulf of Maine

Shallow Water, Full Table

Fish moving, faces I know, water so generous I never looked west.

27 m
Deepest dive
1:35
Longest dive
50
Dives
Sightings
4
Days between first and last sighting
21
Deepest dive on record
27 m · this residency

Dive stats modelled within real depth limits — not measured

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SightingSeafloorSea tempDeepest dive (modelled)
Jun 19, 202625 m16.0°C23 m
Jun 29, 202628 m17.9°C25 m
Jul 3, 202638 m19.9°C27 m
Jul 10, 202621 m20.7°C18 m

Seafloor and sea temperature measured · ✳ dives modelled

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Deepest dive against the seafloor, per sighting

Seafloor · measured Deepest dive · modelled
Jun 19, 2026 — seafloor 25 m (measured), deepest dive 23 m (modelled)Jun 19Jun 29, 2026 — seafloor 28 m (measured), deepest dive 25 m (modelled)Jun 29Jul 3, 2026 — seafloor 38 m (measured), deepest dive 27 m (modelled)Jul 3Jul 10, 2026 — seafloor 21 m (measured), deepest dive 18 m (modelled)Jul 10

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

Dives

27 m
Deepest dive
1:35
Longest dive
50
Dives
13 m
Avg dive depth
4
Sightings
21
Days first → last

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Dive profile

modelled
0255027 mstartdive sequence (illustrative)

Depth shaped by the seafloor limit here (38 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 3, 2026

measured
Seafloor depth
38 m
Sea-surface temperature
19.9°C
Distance from shore
9.0 km

Across the residency · 4 sightings

measured
Seafloor depth
21 m – 38 m
Sea-surface temperature
16.0°C – 20.7°C
Distance from shore
9.0 km – 25.0 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.

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