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Gulf of Maine

Pitcher – Residency

29th sighting in Gulf of Maine
Fluke of Pitcher
Pitcher Confirmed in the catalog @14961
May 1 – Jul 16, 2026 · Gulf of Maine

Thick Water, Good Company

Bait piled high, whales everywhere, and me right in the middle of it.

89 m
Deepest dive
3:22
Longest dive
56
Dives
Sightings
6
Days between first and last sighting
75
Deepest dive on record
89 m · this residency

Dive stats modelled within real depth limits — not measured

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SightingSeafloorSea tempDeepest dive (modelled)
May 1, 202698 m7.4°C89 m
May 2, 202636 m7.2°C31 m
Jun 21, 202628 m15.2°C24 m
Jul 12, 202653 m20.2°C32 m
Jul 15, 202644 m20.1°C26 m
Jul 16, 20266 m19.3°C5 m

Seafloor and sea temperature measured · ✳ dives modelled

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Deepest dive against the seafloor, per sighting

Seafloor · measured Deepest dive · modelled
May 1, 2026 — seafloor 98 m (measured), deepest dive 89 m (modelled)May 1May 2, 2026 — seafloor 36 m (measured), deepest dive 31 m (modelled)May 2Jun 21, 2026 — seafloor 28 m (measured), deepest dive 24 m (modelled)Jun 21Jul 12, 2026 — seafloor 53 m (measured), deepest dive 32 m (modelled)Jul 12Jul 15, 2026 — seafloor 44 m (measured), deepest dive 26 m (modelled)Jul 15Jul 16, 2026 — seafloor 6 m (measured), deepest dive 5 m (modelled)Jul 16

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

Dives

89 m
Deepest dive
3:22
Longest dive
56
Dives
19 m
Avg dive depth
6
Sightings
75
Days first → last

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Dive profile

modelled
05010089 mstartdive sequence (illustrative)

Depth shaped by the seafloor limit here (98 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 · May 1, 2026

measured
Seafloor depth
98 m
Sea-surface temperature
7.4°C
Distance from shore
29.0 km

Across the residency · 6 sightings

measured
Seafloor depth
6 m – 98 m
Sea-surface temperature
7.2°C – 20.2°C
Distance from shore
2.0 km – 29.0 km

Sources: GEBCO seafloor grid · NOAA OISST sea temperature · PacIOOS coastline distance

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Source records

This activity is assembled from 6 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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