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Gulf of Maine

Spoon – Residency

28th sighting in Gulf of Maine
Fluke of Spoon
Spoon Confirmed in the catalog @4766
Jun 5 – Aug 20, 2026 · Gulf of Maine

Known on These Banks

Another summer feeding here, and the boats already know my fluke.

43 m
Deepest dive
1:55
Longest dive
28
Dives
Sightings
3
Days between first and last sighting
75

Dive stats modelled within real depth limits — not measured

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SightingSeafloorSea tempDeepest dive (modelled)
Jun 5, 202682 m12.3°C43 m
Jul 17, 202698 m20.2°C19 m
Aug 20, 202640 m20.7°C18 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 5, 2026 — seafloor 82 m (measured), deepest dive 43 m (modelled)Jun 5Jul 17, 2026 — seafloor 98 m (measured), deepest dive 19 m (modelled)Jul 17Aug 20, 2026 — seafloor 40 m (measured), deepest dive 18 m (modelled)Aug 20

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

Dives

43 m
Deepest dive
1:55
Longest dive
28
Dives
14 m
Avg dive depth
3
Sightings
75
Days first → last

Dive metrics are modelled within real depth limits — not measured

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Dive profile

modelled
0255043 mstartdive sequence (illustrative)

Depth shaped by the seafloor limit here (82 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 5, 2026

measured
Seafloor depth
82 m
Sea-surface temperature
12.3°C
Distance from shore
31.0 km

Across the residency · 3 sightings

measured
Seafloor depth
40 m – 98 m
Sea-surface temperature
12.3°C – 20.7°C
Distance from shore
17.0 km – 31.0 km

Sources: GEBCO seafloor grid · NOAA OISST sea temperature · PacIOOS coastline distance

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Source records

This activity is assembled from 3 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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