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Gulf of Maine

Wizard – Residency

10th sighting in Gulf of Maine
Fluke of Wizard
Wizard Confirmed in the catalog @12715
Aug 12 – Oct 5, 2023 · Gulf of Maine

Gulf of Maine · Aug – Oct 2023

48 m
Deepest dive
2:05
Longest dive
56
Dives
Sightings
4
Days between first and last sighting
54
Deepest dive on record
48 m · this residency

Dive stats modelled within real depth limits — not measured

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SightingSeafloorSea tempDeepest dive (modelled)
Aug 12, 202356 m—48 m
Aug 13, 202354 m—39 m
Sep 11, 202340 m—37 m
Oct 5, 20235 m—5 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 12, 2023 — seafloor 56 m (measured), deepest dive 48 m (modelled)Aug 12Aug 13, 2023 — seafloor 54 m (measured), deepest dive 39 m (modelled)Aug 13Sep 11, 2023 — seafloor 40 m (measured), deepest dive 37 m (modelled)Sep 11Oct 5, 2023 — seafloor 5 m (measured), deepest dive 5 m (modelled)Oct 5

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

Dives

48 m
Deepest dive
2:05
Longest dive
56
Dives
14 m
Avg dive depth
4
Sightings
54
Days first → last

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Dive profile

modelled
0255048 mstartdive sequence (illustrative)

Depth shaped by the seafloor limit here (56 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 12, 2023

measured
Seafloor depth
56 m
Sea-surface temperature
—
Distance from shore
5.0 km

Across the residency · 4 sightings

measured
Seafloor depth
5 m – 56 m
Sea-surface temperature
—
Distance from shore
4.0 km – 8.0 km

Sources: GEBCO seafloor grid · 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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