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Gulf of Maine

Highlighter – Residency

18th sighting in Gulf of Maine
Fluke of Highlighter
Highlighter Confirmed in the catalog @15295
Jul 6 – Sep 26, 2025 · Gulf of Maine

Gulf of Maine · Jul – Sep 2025

105 m
Deepest dive
4:17
Longest dive
109
Dives
Sightings
11
Days between first and last sighting
83
Deepest dive on record
105 m · this residency

Dive stats modelled within real depth limits — not measured

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SightingSeafloorSea tempDeepest dive (modelled)
Jul 6, 202598 m—82 m
Aug 13, 202540 m—27 m
Aug 16, 202566 m—51 m
Aug 19, 202595 m—75 m
Aug 20, 2025102 m—47 m
Aug 28, 2025145 m—103 m
Aug 31, 2025129 m—62 m
Sep 1, 2025145 m—97 m
Sep 1, 202598 m—89 m
Sep 1, 2025118 m—105 m
Sep 26, 202575 m—57 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 6, 2025 — seafloor 98 m (measured), deepest dive 82 m (modelled)Jul 6Aug 13, 2025 — seafloor 40 m (measured), deepest dive 27 m (modelled)Aug 13Aug 16, 2025 — seafloor 66 m (measured), deepest dive 51 m (modelled)Aug 16Aug 19, 2025 — seafloor 95 m (measured), deepest dive 75 m (modelled)Aug 19Aug 20, 2025 — seafloor 102 m (measured), deepest dive 47 m (modelled)Aug 20Aug 28, 2025 — seafloor 145 m (measured), deepest dive 103 m (modelled)Aug 28Aug 31, 2025 — seafloor 129 m (measured), deepest dive 62 m (modelled)Aug 31Sep 1, 2025 — seafloor 145 m (measured), deepest dive 97 m (modelled)Sep 1Sep 1, 2025 — seafloor 98 m (measured), deepest dive 89 m (modelled)Sep 1Sep 1, 2025 — seafloor 118 m (measured), deepest dive 105 m (modelled)Sep 1Sep 26, 2025 — seafloor 75 m (measured), deepest dive 57 m (modelled)Sep 26

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

Dives

105 m
Deepest dive
4:17
Longest dive
109
Dives
29 m
Avg dive depth
11
Sightings
83
Days first → last

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Dive profile

modelled
075150105 mstartdive sequence (illustrative)

Depth shaped by the seafloor limit here (118 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 1, 2025

measured
Seafloor depth
118 m
Sea-surface temperature
—
Distance from shore
8.0 km

Across the residency · 11 sightings

measured
Seafloor depth
40 m – 145 m
Sea-surface temperature
—
Distance from shore
5.0 km – 51.0 km

Sources: GEBCO seafloor grid · PacIOOS coastline distance

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Source records

This activity is assembled from 11 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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