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Gulf of Maine

Schism – Residency

12th sighting in Gulf of Maine
Fluke of Schism
Schism Confirmed in the catalog @3402
May 17 – Jul 3, 2026 · Gulf of Maine

The Bank Is Loud Again

Sand eels thick, whales everywhere, cameras never had a slow day.

40 m
Deepest dive
1:53
Longest dive
140
Dives
Sightings
9
Days between first and last sighting
47
Deepest dive on record
40 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°C25 m
Jun 13, 202628 m17.9°C25 m
Jun 13, 202628 m17.9°C24 m
Jun 14, 202624 m17.9°C20 m
Jun 19, 202624 m16.0°C22 m
Jun 19, 202644 m16.3°C40 m
Jun 20, 202628 m15.9°C22 m
Jun 21, 202630 m15.5°C27 m
Jul 3, 202641 m19.8°C36 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 25 m (modelled)May 17Jun 13, 2026 — seafloor 28 m (measured), deepest dive 25 m (modelled)Jun 13Jun 13, 2026 — seafloor 28 m (measured), deepest dive 24 m (modelled)Jun 13Jun 14, 2026 — seafloor 24 m (measured), deepest dive 20 m (modelled)Jun 14Jun 19, 2026 — seafloor 24 m (measured), deepest dive 22 m (modelled)Jun 19Jun 19, 2026 — seafloor 44 m (measured), deepest dive 40 m (modelled)Jun 19Jun 20, 2026 — seafloor 28 m (measured), deepest dive 22 m (modelled)Jun 20Jun 21, 2026 — seafloor 30 m (measured), deepest dive 27 m (modelled)Jun 21Jul 3, 2026 — seafloor 41 m (measured), deepest dive 36 m (modelled)Jul 3

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

Dives

40 m
Deepest dive
1:53
Longest dive
140
Dives
13 m
Avg dive depth
9
Sightings
47
Days first → last

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Dive profile

modelled
0255040 mstartdive sequence (illustrative)

Depth shaped by the seafloor limit here (44 m) and the published dive-behaviour distribution. Modelled, not measured.

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Deep

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Place

Where this happened · Jun 19, 2026

measured
Seafloor depth
44 m
Sea-surface temperature
16.3°C
Distance from shore
13.0 km

Across the residency · 9 sightings

measured
Seafloor depth
24 m – 44 m
Sea-surface temperature
9.5°C – 19.8°C
Distance from shore
10.0 km – 27.0 km

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

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Source records

This activity is assembled from 9 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.

The photographs and fluke identifications behind every sighting are the work of the contributing observers — the citizen scientists, naturalists and operators who logged them, each named in the underlying GBIF occurrence record. Every activity links out to its source encounters on Happywhale. Basemaps © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL).

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