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Gulf of Maine

Bounce – Residency

17th sighting in Gulf of Maine
Fluke of Bounce
Bounce Confirmed in the catalog @16988
May 1 – Aug 13, 2026 · Gulf of Maine

Green Water, Good Company

This shelf feeds me right, and everyone showed up to eat.

60 m
Deepest dive
1:58
Longest dive
102
Dives
Sightings
8
Days between first and last sighting
103
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 1, 202698 m7.4°C60 m
May 2, 202636 m7.2°C33 m
Jul 10, 202622 m20.7°C14 m
Jul 17, 202628 m19.5°C25 m
Jul 27, 202628 m19.2°C23 m
Aug 5, 202623 m18.9°C20 m
Aug 8, 202628 m21.0°C21 m
Aug 13, 202639 m21.7°C32 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 60 m (modelled)May 1May 2, 2026 — seafloor 36 m (measured), deepest dive 33 m (modelled)May 2Jul 10, 2026 — seafloor 22 m (measured), deepest dive 14 m (modelled)Jul 10Jul 17, 2026 — seafloor 28 m (measured), deepest dive 25 m (modelled)Jul 17Jul 27, 2026 — seafloor 28 m (measured), deepest dive 23 m (modelled)Jul 27Aug 5, 2026 — seafloor 23 m (measured), deepest dive 20 m (modelled)Aug 5Aug 8, 2026 — seafloor 28 m (measured), deepest dive 21 m (modelled)Aug 8Aug 13, 2026 — seafloor 39 m (measured), deepest dive 32 m (modelled)Aug 13

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

Dives

60 m
Deepest dive
1:58
Longest dive
102
Dives
14 m
Avg dive depth
8
Sightings
103
Days first → last

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Dive profile

modelled
05010060 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 · 8 sightings

measured
Seafloor depth
22 m – 98 m
Sea-surface temperature
7.2°C – 21.7°C
Distance from shore
12.0 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 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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