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Gulf of Maine

Bayou – Residency

24th sighting in Gulf of Maine
Fluke of Bayou
Bayou Confirmed in the catalog @12736
Jul 10 – Oct 8, 2026 · Gulf of Maine

Green Water Season

Herring runs, bubble nets, and my kind of crowd — all summer long.

63 m
Deepest dive
2:29
Longest dive
127
Dives
Sightings
9
Days between first and last sighting
90

Dive stats modelled within real depth limits — not measured

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SightingSeafloorSea tempDeepest dive (modelled)
Jul 10, 202622 m20.7°C20 m
Jul 12, 202624 m20.2°C14 m
Jul 18, 202649 m19.1°C35 m
Jul 19, 202655 m18.4°C48 m
Aug 8, 202628 m21.0°C23 m
Aug 10, 202628 m21.1°C24 m
Aug 21, 202680 m15.3°C63 m
Sep 30, 202644 m—17 m
Oct 8, 202628 m—20 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 10, 2026 — seafloor 22 m (measured), deepest dive 20 m (modelled)Jul 10Jul 12, 2026 — seafloor 24 m (measured), deepest dive 14 m (modelled)Jul 12Jul 18, 2026 — seafloor 49 m (measured), deepest dive 35 m (modelled)Jul 18Jul 19, 2026 — seafloor 55 m (measured), deepest dive 48 m (modelled)Jul 19Aug 8, 2026 — seafloor 28 m (measured), deepest dive 23 m (modelled)Aug 8Aug 10, 2026 — seafloor 28 m (measured), deepest dive 24 m (modelled)Aug 10Aug 21, 2026 — seafloor 80 m (measured), deepest dive 63 m (modelled)Aug 21Sep 30, 2026 — seafloor 44 m (measured), deepest dive 17 m (modelled)Sep 30Oct 8, 2026 — seafloor 28 m (measured), deepest dive 20 m (modelled)Oct 8

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

Dives

63 m
Deepest dive
2:29
Longest dive
127
Dives
15 m
Avg dive depth
9
Sightings
90
Days first → last

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Dive profile

modelled
05010063 mstartdive sequence (illustrative)

Depth shaped by the seafloor limit here (80 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 21, 2026

measured
Seafloor depth
80 m
Sea-surface temperature
15.3°C
Distance from shore
3.0 km

Across the residency · 9 sightings

measured
Seafloor depth
22 m – 80 m
Sea-surface temperature
15.3°C – 21.1°C
Distance from shore
3.0 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 9 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.

The photographs and fluke identifications behind every sighting are the work of the contributing observers — the citizen scientists, naturalists and operators who logged them, each named in the underlying GBIF occurrence record. Every activity links out to its source encounters on Happywhale. Basemaps © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL).

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