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Gulf of Maine

Crinkle – Residency

13th sighting in Gulf of Maine
Fluke of Crinkle
Crinkle Confirmed in the catalog @25441
May 17 – Sep 12, 2026 · Gulf of Maine

Sand Haze Season

Whole summer feeding in cool water, crowd shifting, crimp tail unmistakable as ever.

69 m
Deepest dive
3:19
Longest dive
56
Dives
Sightings
7
Days between first and last sighting
118
Deepest dive on record
69 m · this residency

Dive stats modelled within real depth limits — not measured

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SightingSeafloorSea tempDeepest dive (modelled)
May 17, 202636 m9.5°C21 m
May 17, 202636 m9.5°C30 m
May 18, 202631 m10.7°C24 m
Aug 7, 202624 m20.2°C11 m
Aug 27, 202654 m20.6°C40 m
Aug 28, 202635 m20.2°C29 m
Sep 12, 202677 m—69 m

Seafloor and sea temperature measured · ✳ dives modelled

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Deepest dive against the seafloor, per sighting

Seafloor · measured Deepest dive · modelled
May 17, 2026 — seafloor 36 m (measured), deepest dive 21 m (modelled)May 17May 17, 2026 — seafloor 36 m (measured), deepest dive 30 m (modelled)May 17May 18, 2026 — seafloor 31 m (measured), deepest dive 24 m (modelled)May 18Aug 7, 2026 — seafloor 24 m (measured), deepest dive 11 m (modelled)Aug 7Aug 27, 2026 — seafloor 54 m (measured), deepest dive 40 m (modelled)Aug 27Aug 28, 2026 — seafloor 35 m (measured), deepest dive 29 m (modelled)Aug 28Sep 12, 2026 — seafloor 77 m (measured), deepest dive 69 m (modelled)Sep 12

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

Dives

69 m
Deepest dive
3:19
Longest dive
56
Dives
16 m
Avg dive depth
7
Sightings
118
Days first → last

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Dive profile

modelled
05010069 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 · Sep 12, 2026

measured
Seafloor depth
77 m
Sea-surface temperature
—
Distance from shore
24.0 km

Across the residency · 7 sightings

measured
Seafloor depth
24 m – 77 m
Sea-surface temperature
9.5°C – 20.6°C
Distance from shore
9.0 km – 27.0 km

Sources: GEBCO seafloor grid · PacIOOS coastline distance

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Source records

This activity is assembled from 7 catalogued encounters on Happywhale.

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