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Gulf of Maine

Joy – Residency

15th sighting in Gulf of Maine
Fluke of Joy
Joy Confirmed in the catalog @22200
Jun 13 – Jul 19, 2026 · Gulf of Maine

A Whole Summer of Sightings

Somebody caught me on these banks all season long.

38 m
Deepest dive
1:35
Longest dive
93
Dives
Sightings
8
Days between first and last sighting
36

Dive stats modelled within real depth limits — not measured

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SightingSeafloorSea tempDeepest dive (modelled)
Jun 13, 202628 m17.9°C26 m
Jun 19, 202625 m16.0°C23 m
Jun 27, 202627 m17.9°C25 m
Jun 28, 202628 m17.8°C17 m
Jun 29, 202627 m17.8°C23 m
Jun 30, 202646 m18.5°C38 m
Jul 10, 202622 m20.7°C18 m
Jul 19, 202633 m19.3°C21 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 28 m (measured), deepest dive 26 m (modelled)Jun 13Jun 19, 2026 — seafloor 25 m (measured), deepest dive 23 m (modelled)Jun 19Jun 27, 2026 — seafloor 27 m (measured), deepest dive 25 m (modelled)Jun 27Jun 28, 2026 — seafloor 28 m (measured), deepest dive 17 m (modelled)Jun 28Jun 29, 2026 — seafloor 27 m (measured), deepest dive 23 m (modelled)Jun 29Jun 30, 2026 — seafloor 46 m (measured), deepest dive 38 m (modelled)Jun 30Jul 10, 2026 — seafloor 22 m (measured), deepest dive 18 m (modelled)Jul 10Jul 19, 2026 — seafloor 33 m (measured), deepest dive 21 m (modelled)Jul 19

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

Dives

38 m
Deepest dive
1:35
Longest dive
93
Dives
13 m
Avg dive depth
8
Sightings
36
Days first → last

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Dive profile

modelled
0255038 mstartdive sequence (illustrative)

Depth shaped by the seafloor limit here (46 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 · Jun 30, 2026

measured
Seafloor depth
46 m
Sea-surface temperature
18.5°C
Distance from shore
9.0 km

Across the residency · 8 sightings

measured
Seafloor depth
22 m – 46 m
Sea-surface temperature
16.0°C – 20.7°C
Distance from shore
9.0 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 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.

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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