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Gulf of Maine

161316 – Residency

8th sighting in Gulf of Maine
Fluke of 161316
161316 Confirmed in the catalog @161316
Jun 17 – Aug 28, 2026 · Gulf of Maine

Whole Summer on the Bank

Lingered on this green shallow shelf all summer, fish thick, light good, life fine.

44 m
Deepest dive
2:08
Longest dive
74
Dives
Sightings
8
Days between first and last sighting
72
Deepest dive on record
44 m · this residency

Dive stats modelled within real depth limits — not measured

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SightingSeafloorSea tempDeepest dive (modelled)
Jun 17, 202624 m17.0°C19 m
Jun 19, 202623 m16.0°C13 m
Jun 29, 202628 m17.8°C24 m
Jul 3, 202636 m19.9°C27 m
Aug 8, 202628 m21.0°C21 m
Aug 9, 202634 m21.4°C29 m
Aug 27, 202656 m20.6°C44 m
Aug 28, 202633 m20.2°C19 m

Seafloor and sea temperature measured · ✳ dives modelled

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Deepest dive against the seafloor, per sighting

Seafloor · measured Deepest dive · modelled
Jun 17, 2026 — seafloor 24 m (measured), deepest dive 19 m (modelled)Jun 17Jun 19, 2026 — seafloor 23 m (measured), deepest dive 13 m (modelled)Jun 19Jun 29, 2026 — seafloor 28 m (measured), deepest dive 24 m (modelled)Jun 29Jul 3, 2026 — seafloor 36 m (measured), deepest dive 27 m (modelled)Jul 3Aug 8, 2026 — seafloor 28 m (measured), deepest dive 21 m (modelled)Aug 8Aug 9, 2026 — seafloor 34 m (measured), deepest dive 29 m (modelled)Aug 9Aug 27, 2026 — seafloor 56 m (measured), deepest dive 44 m (modelled)Aug 27Aug 28, 2026 — seafloor 33 m (measured), deepest dive 19 m (modelled)Aug 28

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

Dives

44 m
Deepest dive
2:08
Longest dive
74
Dives
14 m
Avg dive depth
8
Sightings
72
Days first → last

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Dive profile

modelled
0255044 mstartdive sequence (illustrative)

Depth shaped by the seafloor limit here (56 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 · Aug 27, 2026

measured
Seafloor depth
56 m
Sea-surface temperature
20.6°C
Distance from shore
9.0 km

Across the residency · 8 sightings

measured
Seafloor depth
23 m – 56 m
Sea-surface temperature
16.0°C – 21.4°C
Distance from shore
9.0 km – 25.0 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.

The photographs and fluke identifications behind every sighting are the work of the contributing observers — the citizen scientists, naturalists and operators who logged them, each named in the underlying GBIF occurrence record. Every activity links out to its source encounters on Happywhale. Basemaps © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL).

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