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Gulf of Maine

Salt – Residency

22nd sighting in Gulf of Maine
Fluke of Salt
Salt Confirmed in the catalog @19670
Jul 29 – Aug 9, 2025 · Gulf of Maine

Gulf of Maine · Jul – Aug 2025

54 m
Deepest dive
2:30
Longest dive
131
Dives
Sightings
11
Days between first and last sighting
11

Dive stats modelled within real depth limits — not measured

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SightingSeafloorSea tempDeepest dive (modelled)
Jul 29, 202551 m—21 m
Jul 30, 202551 m—46 m
Jul 30, 202561 m—54 m
Aug 2, 202561 m—53 m
Aug 3, 202545 m—41 m
Aug 4, 202543 m—39 m
Aug 5, 202532 m—27 m
Aug 6, 202544 m—27 m
Aug 6, 20258 m—7 m
Aug 7, 202550 m—39 m
Aug 9, 202536 m—33 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 29, 2025 — seafloor 51 m (measured), deepest dive 21 m (modelled)Jul 29Jul 30, 2025 — seafloor 51 m (measured), deepest dive 46 m (modelled)Jul 30Jul 30, 2025 — seafloor 61 m (measured), deepest dive 54 m (modelled)Jul 30Aug 2, 2025 — seafloor 61 m (measured), deepest dive 53 m (modelled)Aug 2Aug 3, 2025 — seafloor 45 m (measured), deepest dive 41 m (modelled)Aug 3Aug 4, 2025 — seafloor 43 m (measured), deepest dive 39 m (modelled)Aug 4Aug 5, 2025 — seafloor 32 m (measured), deepest dive 27 m (modelled)Aug 5Aug 6, 2025 — seafloor 44 m (measured), deepest dive 27 m (modelled)Aug 6Aug 6, 2025 — seafloor 8 m (measured), deepest dive 7 m (modelled)Aug 6Aug 7, 2025 — seafloor 50 m (measured), deepest dive 39 m (modelled)Aug 7Aug 9, 2025 — seafloor 36 m (measured), deepest dive 33 m (modelled)Aug 9

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

Dives

54 m
Deepest dive
2:30
Longest dive
131
Dives
17 m
Avg dive depth
11
Sightings
11
Days first → last

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Dive profile

modelled
05010054 mstartdive sequence (illustrative)

Depth shaped by the seafloor limit here (61 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 30, 2025

measured
Seafloor depth
61 m
Sea-surface temperature
—
Distance from shore
8.0 km

Across the residency · 11 sightings

measured
Seafloor depth
8 m – 61 m
Sea-surface temperature
—
Distance from shore
2.0 km – 13.0 km

Sources: GEBCO seafloor grid · PacIOOS coastline distance

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Source records

This activity is assembled from 11 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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