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Gulf of Maine

Lutris – Residency

6th sighting in Gulf of Maine
Fluke of Lutris
Lutris Confirmed in the catalog @22179
Jul 23 – Sep 30, 2026 · Gulf of Maine

Green Water, Old Friends

Late summer on the shelf, familiar fins nearby, fish everywhere — my whole ambition, satisfied.

53 m
Deepest dive
1:54
Longest dive
72
Dives
Sightings
5
Days between first and last sighting
69

Dive stats modelled within real depth limits — not measured

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SightingSeafloorSea tempDeepest dive (modelled)
Jul 23, 202629 m20.9°C21 m
Jul 27, 202621 m20.4°C19 m
Aug 15, 202640 m23.1°C35 m
Aug 29, 202661 m20.8°C53 m
Sep 30, 202644 m—34 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 23, 2026 — seafloor 29 m (measured), deepest dive 21 m (modelled)Jul 23Jul 27, 2026 — seafloor 21 m (measured), deepest dive 19 m (modelled)Jul 27Aug 15, 2026 — seafloor 40 m (measured), deepest dive 35 m (modelled)Aug 15Aug 29, 2026 — seafloor 61 m (measured), deepest dive 53 m (modelled)Aug 29Sep 30, 2026 — seafloor 44 m (measured), deepest dive 34 m (modelled)Sep 30

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

Dives

53 m
Deepest dive
1:54
Longest dive
72
Dives
15 m
Avg dive depth
5
Sightings
69
Days first → last

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Dive profile

modelled
05010053 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 · Aug 29, 2026

measured
Seafloor depth
61 m
Sea-surface temperature
20.8°C
Distance from shore
7.0 km

Across the residency · 5 sightings

measured
Seafloor depth
21 m – 61 m
Sea-surface temperature
20.4°C – 23.1°C
Distance from shore
7.0 km – 21.0 km

Sources: GEBCO seafloor grid · NASA JPL MUR sea temperature · PacIOOS coastline distance

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Source records

This activity is assembled from 5 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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