Crinkle – Residency
13th sighting in Gulf of Maine
Crinkle @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
Get actual dive data with Risa Deep →| Sighting | Seafloor | Sea temp | Deepest dive (modelled) |
|---|---|---|---|
| May 17, 2026 | 36 m | 9.5°C | 21 m |
| May 17, 2026 | 36 m | 9.5°C | 30 m |
| May 18, 2026 | 31 m | 10.7°C | 24 m |
| Aug 7, 2026 | 24 m | 20.2°C | 11 m |
| Aug 27, 2026 | 54 m | 20.6°C | 40 m |
| Aug 28, 2026 | 35 m | 20.2°C | 29 m |
| Sep 12, 2026 | 77 m | — | 69 m |
Seafloor and sea temperature measured · ✳ dives modelled
Deepest dive against the seafloor, per sighting
Seafloor · measured Deepest dive · modelledDepth 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
Dive metrics are modelled within real depth limits — not measured
Get actual dive data with Risa Deep →Dive profile
modelledDepth shaped by the seafloor limit here (77 m) and the published dive-behaviour distribution. Modelled, not measured.
Deep Effort Score
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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
Source records
This activity is assembled from 7 catalogued encounters on Happywhale.