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Gulf of Maine

Clamp – Residency

11th sighting in Gulf of Maine
Fluke of Clamp
Clamp Confirmed in the catalog @5589
Jun 17 – Aug 31, 2021 · Gulf of Maine

Gulf of Maine · Jun – Aug 2021

41 m
Deepest dive
1:58
Longest dive
50
Dives
Sightings
4
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 17, 202155 m16.8°C40 m
Aug 8, 202153 m19.8°C40 m
Aug 16, 2021109 m21.5°C41 m
Aug 31, 202142 m20.0°C37 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 17, 2021 — seafloor 55 m (measured), deepest dive 40 m (modelled)Jun 17Aug 8, 2021 — seafloor 53 m (measured), deepest dive 40 m (modelled)Aug 8Aug 16, 2021 — seafloor 109 m (measured), deepest dive 41 m (modelled)Aug 16Aug 31, 2021 — seafloor 42 m (measured), deepest dive 37 m (modelled)Aug 31

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

Dives

41 m
Deepest dive
1:58
Longest dive
50
Dives
17 m
Avg dive depth
4
Sightings
75
Days first → last

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Dive profile

modelled
0255041 mstartdive sequence (illustrative)

Depth shaped by the seafloor limit here (109 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 · Aug 16, 2021

measured
Seafloor depth
109 m
Sea-surface temperature
21.5°C
Distance from shore
26.0 km

Across the residency · 4 sightings

measured
Seafloor depth
42 m – 109 m
Sea-surface temperature
16.8°C – 21.5°C
Distance from shore
8.0 km – 30.0 km

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

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Source records

This activity is assembled from 4 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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