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North Atlantic

Melody – Residency

Fluke of Melody
Melody Confirmed in the catalog @52722
Sep 12 – 29, 2026 · North Atlantic

Green Shelves in Autumn

Light still sits on that sandy bottom just right.

33 m
Deepest dive
1:25
Longest dive
27
Dives
Sightings
3
Days between first and last sighting
17

Dive stats modelled within real depth limits — not measured

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SightingSeafloorSea tempDeepest dive (modelled)
Sep 12, 202616 m22.9°C14 m
Sep 19, 202638 m—33 m
Sep 29, 202611 m—8 m

Seafloor and sea temperature measured · ✳ dives modelled

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Deepest dive against the seafloor, per sighting

Seafloor · measured Deepest dive · modelled
Sep 12, 2026 — seafloor 16 m (measured), deepest dive 14 m (modelled)Sep 12Sep 19, 2026 — seafloor 38 m (measured), deepest dive 33 m (modelled)Sep 19Sep 29, 2026 — seafloor 11 m (measured), deepest dive 8 m (modelled)Sep 29

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

Dives

33 m
Deepest dive
1:25
Longest dive
27
Dives
10 m
Avg dive depth
3
Sightings
17
Days first → last

Dive metrics are modelled within real depth limits — not measured

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Dive profile

modelled
0255033 mstartdive sequence (illustrative)

Depth shaped by the seafloor limit here (38 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 19, 2026

measured
Seafloor depth
38 m
Sea-surface temperature
—
Distance from shore
44.0 km

Across the residency · 3 sightings

measured
Seafloor depth
11 m – 38 m
Sea-surface temperature
22.9°C
Distance from shore
3.0 km – 44.0 km

Sources: GEBCO seafloor grid · 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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