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Gulf of Maine

Tear – Residency

22nd sighting in Gulf of Maine
Fluke of Tear
Tear Confirmed in the catalog @17000
Jun 19 – Sep 12, 2026 · Gulf of Maine

Green Water, Good Company

Whole summer up in the light, crowds shifting, water thick with feed.

59 m
Deepest dive
2:10
Longest dive
89
Dives
Sightings
10
Days between first and last sighting
85

Dive stats modelled within real depth limits — not measured

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SightingSeafloorSea tempDeepest dive (modelled)
Jun 19, 202643 m16.3°C33 m
Jul 3, 202638 m19.9°C33 m
Jul 6, 202652 m17.0°C36 m
Jul 10, 202621 m20.7°C16 m
Jul 12, 202624 m20.2°C11 m
Jul 12, 202624 m20.2°C20 m
Aug 28, 202631 m20.2°C27 m
Aug 30, 202622 m20.7°C18 m
Sep 9, 202626 m19.1°C20 m
Sep 12, 202676 m—59 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 19, 2026 — seafloor 43 m (measured), deepest dive 33 m (modelled)Jun 19Jul 3, 2026 — seafloor 38 m (measured), deepest dive 33 m (modelled)Jul 3Jul 6, 2026 — seafloor 52 m (measured), deepest dive 36 m (modelled)Jul 6Jul 10, 2026 — seafloor 21 m (measured), deepest dive 16 m (modelled)Jul 10Jul 12, 2026 — seafloor 24 m (measured), deepest dive 11 m (modelled)Jul 12Jul 12, 2026 — seafloor 24 m (measured), deepest dive 20 m (modelled)Jul 12Aug 28, 2026 — seafloor 31 m (measured), deepest dive 27 m (modelled)Aug 28Aug 30, 2026 — seafloor 22 m (measured), deepest dive 18 m (modelled)Aug 30Sep 9, 2026 — seafloor 26 m (measured), deepest dive 20 m (modelled)Sep 9Sep 12, 2026 — seafloor 76 m (measured), deepest dive 59 m (modelled)Sep 12

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

Dives

59 m
Deepest dive
2:10
Longest dive
89
Dives
14 m
Avg dive depth
10
Sightings
85
Days first → last

Dive metrics are modelled within real depth limits — not measured

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Dive profile

modelled
05010059 mstartdive sequence (illustrative)

Depth shaped by the seafloor limit here (76 m) and the published dive-behaviour distribution. Modelled, not measured.

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Place

Where this happened · Sep 12, 2026

measured
Seafloor depth
76 m
Sea-surface temperature
—
Distance from shore
21.0 km

Across the residency · 10 sightings

measured
Seafloor depth
21 m – 76 m
Sea-surface temperature
16.3°C – 20.7°C
Distance from shore
7.0 km – 21.0 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.

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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