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Gulf of Maine

Ursa – Residency

9th sighting in Gulf of Maine
Fluke of Ursa
Ursa Confirmed in the catalog @22154
Jun 13 – Jul 10, 2026 · Gulf of Maine

Early Summer, Reliable Water

Rose up plenty this stretch, that shelf never lets me down.

24 m
Deepest dive
1:26
Longest dive
89
Dives
Sightings
4
Days between first and last sighting
27

Dive stats modelled within real depth limits — not measured

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SightingSeafloorSea tempDeepest dive (modelled)
Jun 13, 202624 m17.8°C19 m
Jun 27, 202627 m17.9°C21 m
Jul 5, 202628 m21.1°C24 m
Jul 10, 202621 m20.7°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 13, 2026 — seafloor 24 m (measured), deepest dive 19 m (modelled)Jun 13Jun 27, 2026 — seafloor 27 m (measured), deepest dive 21 m (modelled)Jun 27Jul 5, 2026 — seafloor 28 m (measured), deepest dive 24 m (modelled)Jul 5Jul 10, 2026 — seafloor 21 m (measured), deepest dive 19 m (modelled)Jul 10

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

Dives

24 m
Deepest dive
1:26
Longest dive
89
Dives
11 m
Avg dive depth
4
Sightings
27
Days first → last

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Dive profile

modelled
0255024 mstartdive sequence (illustrative)

Depth shaped by the seafloor limit here (28 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 5, 2026

measured
Seafloor depth
28 m
Sea-surface temperature
21.1°C
Distance from shore
25.0 km

Across the residency · 4 sightings

measured
Seafloor depth
21 m – 28 m
Sea-surface temperature
17.8°C – 21.1°C
Distance from shore
10.0 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 4 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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