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Gulf of Maine

Sprinkles – Residency

27th sighting in Gulf of Maine
Fluke of Sprinkles
Sprinkles Confirmed in the catalog @25319
Jun 19 – Sep 11, 2026 · Gulf of Maine

A Whole Season of Sightings

This bay knows my crooked flukes better than I do.

58 m
Deepest dive
3:12
Longest dive
126
Dives
Sightings
7
Days between first and last sighting
84
Deepest dive on record
58 m · this residency

Dive stats modelled within real depth limits — not measured

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SightingSeafloorSea tempDeepest dive (modelled)
Jun 19, 202625 m16.0°C21 m
Jun 19, 202644 m16.3°C27 m
Jun 27, 202627 m17.9°C23 m
Aug 8, 202628 m21.0°C24 m
Aug 25, 202622 m20.4°C20 m
Aug 28, 202631 m20.2°C29 m
Sep 11, 202698 m19.4°C58 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 19, 2026 — seafloor 25 m (measured), deepest dive 21 m (modelled)Jun 19Jun 19, 2026 — seafloor 44 m (measured), deepest dive 27 m (modelled)Jun 19Jun 27, 2026 — seafloor 27 m (measured), deepest dive 23 m (modelled)Jun 27Aug 8, 2026 — seafloor 28 m (measured), deepest dive 24 m (modelled)Aug 8Aug 25, 2026 — seafloor 22 m (measured), deepest dive 20 m (modelled)Aug 25Aug 28, 2026 — seafloor 31 m (measured), deepest dive 29 m (modelled)Aug 28Sep 11, 2026 — seafloor 98 m (measured), deepest dive 58 m (modelled)Sep 11

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

Dives

58 m
Deepest dive
3:12
Longest dive
126
Dives
15 m
Avg dive depth
7
Sightings
84
Days first → last

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Dive profile

modelled
05010058 mstartdive sequence (illustrative)

Depth shaped by the seafloor limit here (98 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 · Sep 11, 2026

measured
Seafloor depth
98 m
Sea-surface temperature
19.4°C
Distance from shore
29.0 km

Across the residency · 7 sightings

measured
Seafloor depth
22 m – 98 m
Sea-surface temperature
16.0°C – 21.0°C
Distance from shore
11.0 km – 29.0 km

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

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Source records

This activity is assembled from 7 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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