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Gulf of Maine

Tanzania – Residency

5th sighting in Gulf of Maine
Fluke of Tanzania
Tanzania Confirmed in the catalog @131567
Sep 9 – 13, 2026 · Gulf of Maine

September Green Water

Cold Gulf water, good company, plenty more tail to show yet.

28 m
Deepest dive
1:55
Longest dive
24
Dives
Sightings
3
Days between first and last sighting
4

Dive stats modelled within real depth limits — not measured

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SightingSeafloorSea tempDeepest dive (modelled)
Sep 9, 202628 m—19 m
Sep 10, 202632 m19.5°C27 m
Sep 13, 202662 m—28 m

Seafloor and sea temperature measured · ✳ dives modelled

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Deepest dive against the seafloor, per sighting

Seafloor · measured Deepest dive · modelled
Sep 9, 2026 — seafloor 28 m (measured), deepest dive 19 m (modelled)Sep 9Sep 10, 2026 — seafloor 32 m (measured), deepest dive 27 m (modelled)Sep 10Sep 13, 2026 — seafloor 62 m (measured), deepest dive 28 m (modelled)Sep 13

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

Dives

28 m
Deepest dive
1:55
Longest dive
24
Dives
14 m
Avg dive depth
3
Sightings
4
Days first → last

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Dive profile

modelled
0255028 mstartdive sequence (illustrative)

Depth shaped by the seafloor limit here (62 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 · Sep 13, 2026

measured
Seafloor depth
62 m
Sea-surface temperature
—
Distance from shore
19.0 km

Across the residency · 3 sightings

measured
Seafloor depth
28 m – 62 m
Sea-surface temperature
19.5°C
Distance from shore
17.0 km – 25.0 km

Sources: GEBCO seafloor grid · PacIOOS coastline distance

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Source records

This activity is assembled from 3 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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