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Gulf of Maine

Aswan – Residency

10th sighting in Gulf of Maine
Fluke of Aswan
Aswan Confirmed in the catalog @22673
Jun 24 – Jul 10, 2026 · Gulf of Maine

Shelf Season, Full Swing

Shallow water, good company, the kind of summer I show up for.

36 m
Deepest dive
1:38
Longest dive
43
Dives
Sightings
3
Days between first and last sighting
16
Deepest dive on record
36 m · this residency

Dive stats modelled within real depth limits — not measured

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SightingSeafloorSea tempDeepest dive (modelled)
Jun 24, 202646 m16.8°C36 m
Jun 27, 202627 m17.9°C24 m
Jul 10, 202622 m20.7°C16 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 24, 2026 — seafloor 46 m (measured), deepest dive 36 m (modelled)Jun 24Jun 27, 2026 — seafloor 27 m (measured), deepest dive 24 m (modelled)Jun 27Jul 10, 2026 — seafloor 22 m (measured), deepest dive 16 m (modelled)Jul 10

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

Dives

36 m
Deepest dive
1:38
Longest dive
43
Dives
11 m
Avg dive depth
3
Sightings
16
Days first → last

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Dive profile

modelled
0255036 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 24, 2026

measured
Seafloor depth
46 m
Sea-surface temperature
16.8°C
Distance from shore
9.0 km

Across the residency · 3 sightings

measured
Seafloor depth
22 m – 46 m
Sea-surface temperature
16.8°C – 20.7°C
Distance from shore
9.0 km – 12.0 km

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

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Source records

This activity is assembled from 3 catalogued encounters on Happywhale.

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