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Gulf of Maine

Four – Residency

8th sighting in Gulf of Maine
Fluke of Four
Four Confirmed in the catalog @22514
Jul 25 – Oct 11, 2026 · Gulf of Maine

Green Shelf, Late Summer

Warm on top, sand close below, and still more bay to find.

51 m
Deepest dive
1:46
Longest dive
52
Dives
Sightings
4
Days between first and last sighting
78
Deepest dive on record
51 m · this residency

Dive stats modelled within real depth limits — not measured

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SightingSeafloorSea tempDeepest dive (modelled)
Jul 25, 202677 m18.6°C51 m
Aug 28, 202631 m20.2°C26 m
Sep 12, 202640 m19.0°C33 m
Oct 11, 202628 m—24 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 25, 2026 — seafloor 77 m (measured), deepest dive 51 m (modelled)Jul 25Aug 28, 2026 — seafloor 31 m (measured), deepest dive 26 m (modelled)Aug 28Sep 12, 2026 — seafloor 40 m (measured), deepest dive 33 m (modelled)Sep 12Oct 11, 2026 — seafloor 28 m (measured), deepest dive 24 m (modelled)Oct 11

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

Dives

51 m
Deepest dive
1:46
Longest dive
52
Dives
17 m
Avg dive depth
4
Sightings
78
Days first → last

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Dive profile

modelled
05010051 mstartdive sequence (illustrative)

Depth shaped by the seafloor limit here (77 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 25, 2026

measured
Seafloor depth
77 m
Sea-surface temperature
18.6°C
Distance from shore
56.0 km

Across the residency · 4 sightings

measured
Seafloor depth
28 m – 77 m
Sea-surface temperature
18.6°C – 20.2°C
Distance from shore
13.0 km – 56.0 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.

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