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Gulf of Maine

161136 – Residency

8th sighting in Gulf of Maine
Fluke of 161136
161136 Confirmed in the catalog @161136
Jul 9 – Sep 17, 2026 · Gulf of Maine

So Many Breaths, So Close

I keep surfacing right in the middle of everyone — best seat in the water.

85 m
Deepest dive
2:30
Longest dive
89
Dives
Sightings
8
Days between first and last sighting
70
Deepest dive on record
85 m · this residency

Dive stats modelled within real depth limits — not measured

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SightingSeafloorSea tempDeepest dive (modelled)
Jul 9, 202641 m14.4°C31 m
Jul 11, 2026172 m14.6°C85 m
Jul 12, 202652 m14.4°C38 m
Jul 14, 202650 m14.6°C29 m
Jul 16, 2026135 m12.2°C23 m
Jul 23, 202651 m14.0°C45 m
Jul 28, 202651 m14.9°C24 m
Sep 17, 202651 m—47 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 9, 2026 — seafloor 41 m (measured), deepest dive 31 m (modelled)Jul 9Jul 11, 2026 — seafloor 172 m (measured), deepest dive 85 m (modelled)Jul 11Jul 12, 2026 — seafloor 52 m (measured), deepest dive 38 m (modelled)Jul 12Jul 14, 2026 — seafloor 50 m (measured), deepest dive 29 m (modelled)Jul 14Jul 16, 2026 — seafloor 135 m (measured), deepest dive 23 m (modelled)Jul 16Jul 23, 2026 — seafloor 51 m (measured), deepest dive 45 m (modelled)Jul 23Jul 28, 2026 — seafloor 51 m (measured), deepest dive 24 m (modelled)Jul 28Sep 17, 2026 — seafloor 51 m (measured), deepest dive 47 m (modelled)Sep 17

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

Dives

85 m
Deepest dive
2:30
Longest dive
89
Dives
18 m
Avg dive depth
8
Sightings
70
Days first → last

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Dive profile

modelled
05010085 mstartdive sequence (illustrative)

Depth shaped by the seafloor limit here (172 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 11, 2026

measured
Seafloor depth
172 m
Sea-surface temperature
14.6°C
Distance from shore
11.0 km

Across the residency · 8 sightings

measured
Seafloor depth
41 m – 172 m
Sea-surface temperature
12.2°C – 14.9°C
Distance from shore
4.0 km – 11.0 km

Sources: GEBCO seafloor grid · NASA JPL MUR sea temperature · PacIOOS coastline distance

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Source records

This activity is assembled from 8 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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