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Gulf of Maine

Venom – Residency

22nd sighting in Gulf of Maine
Fluke of Venom
Venom Confirmed in the catalog @15311
May 20 – Sep 4, 2023 · Gulf of Maine

Gulf of Maine · May – Sep 2023

60 m
Deepest dive
2:23
Longest dive
160
Dives
Sightings
10
Days between first and last sighting
107
Deepest dive on record
60 m · this residency

Dive stats modelled within real depth limits — not measured

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SightingSeafloorSea tempDeepest dive (modelled)
May 20, 202327 m—17 m
May 23, 202322 m—20 m
May 27, 202350 m—37 m
Jun 21, 202360 m—22 m
Jun 26, 202357 m—51 m
Jun 29, 202328 m—25 m
Jul 3, 202373 m—60 m
Aug 19, 202330 m—26 m
Sep 3, 202340 m—25 m
Sep 4, 202339 m—36 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 20, 2023 — seafloor 27 m (measured), deepest dive 17 m (modelled)May 20May 23, 2023 — seafloor 22 m (measured), deepest dive 20 m (modelled)May 23May 27, 2023 — seafloor 50 m (measured), deepest dive 37 m (modelled)May 27Jun 21, 2023 — seafloor 60 m (measured), deepest dive 22 m (modelled)Jun 21Jun 26, 2023 — seafloor 57 m (measured), deepest dive 51 m (modelled)Jun 26Jun 29, 2023 — seafloor 28 m (measured), deepest dive 25 m (modelled)Jun 29Jul 3, 2023 — seafloor 73 m (measured), deepest dive 60 m (modelled)Jul 3Aug 19, 2023 — seafloor 30 m (measured), deepest dive 26 m (modelled)Aug 19Sep 3, 2023 — seafloor 40 m (measured), deepest dive 25 m (modelled)Sep 3Sep 4, 2023 — seafloor 39 m (measured), deepest dive 36 m (modelled)Sep 4

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

Dives

60 m
Deepest dive
2:23
Longest dive
160
Dives
16 m
Avg dive depth
10
Sightings
107
Days first → last

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Dive profile

modelled
05010060 mstartdive sequence (illustrative)

Depth shaped by the seafloor limit here (73 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 · Jul 3, 2023

measured
Seafloor depth
73 m
Sea-surface temperature
—
Distance from shore
34.0 km

Across the residency · 10 sightings

measured
Seafloor depth
22 m – 73 m
Sea-surface temperature
—
Distance from shore
5.0 km – 34.0 km

Sources: GEBCO seafloor grid · PacIOOS coastline distance

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Source records

This activity is assembled from 10 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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