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Gulf of Maine

Decimal – Residency

16th sighting in Gulf of Maine
Fluke of Decimal
Decimal Confirmed in the catalog @22531
Aug 9 – Sep 10, 2026 · Gulf of Maine

Gull Season on the Ledges

Sand ledges stacked with fish and a gull riding my back — good stretch.

50 m
Deepest dive
1:58
Longest dive
58
Dives
Sightings
4
Days between first and last sighting
32

Dive stats modelled within real depth limits — not measured

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SightingSeafloorSea tempDeepest dive (modelled)
Aug 9, 202654 m21.6°C39 m
Aug 13, 202660 m21.9°C50 m
Sep 9, 202628 m—24 m
Sep 10, 202627 m19.7°C25 m

Seafloor and sea temperature measured · ✳ dives modelled

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Deepest dive against the seafloor, per sighting

Seafloor · measured Deepest dive · modelled
Aug 9, 2026 — seafloor 54 m (measured), deepest dive 39 m (modelled)Aug 9Aug 13, 2026 — seafloor 60 m (measured), deepest dive 50 m (modelled)Aug 13Sep 9, 2026 — seafloor 28 m (measured), deepest dive 24 m (modelled)Sep 9Sep 10, 2026 — seafloor 27 m (measured), deepest dive 25 m (modelled)Sep 10

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

Dives

50 m
Deepest dive
1:58
Longest dive
58
Dives
17 m
Avg dive depth
4
Sightings
32
Days first → last

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Dive profile

modelled
05010050 mstartdive sequence (illustrative)

Depth shaped by the seafloor limit here (60 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 13, 2026

measured
Seafloor depth
60 m
Sea-surface temperature
21.9°C
Distance from shore
7.0 km

Across the residency · 4 sightings

measured
Seafloor depth
27 m – 60 m
Sea-surface temperature
19.7°C – 21.9°C
Distance from shore
7.0 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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