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Gulf of Maine

Cruiser – Residency

6th sighting in Gulf of Maine
Fluke of Cruiser
Cruiser Confirmed in the catalog @56748
Jun 29 – Jul 19, 2026 · Gulf of Maine

Same Bank, Good Crowd

Green water, plenty of company, and I surfaced exactly when I pleased.

41 m
Deepest dive
2:00
Longest dive
73
Dives
Sightings
5
Days between first and last sighting
20
Deepest dive on record
41 m · this residency

Dive stats modelled within real depth limits — not measured

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SightingSeafloorSea tempDeepest dive (modelled)
Jun 29, 202628 m17.9°C25 m
Jun 29, 202627 m17.8°C20 m
Jul 2, 202628 m19.5°C23 m
Jul 3, 202653 m20.1°C41 m
Jul 19, 202631 m19.3°C23 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 29, 2026 — seafloor 28 m (measured), deepest dive 25 m (modelled)Jun 29Jun 29, 2026 — seafloor 27 m (measured), deepest dive 20 m (modelled)Jun 29Jul 2, 2026 — seafloor 28 m (measured), deepest dive 23 m (modelled)Jul 2Jul 3, 2026 — seafloor 53 m (measured), deepest dive 41 m (modelled)Jul 3Jul 19, 2026 — seafloor 31 m (measured), deepest dive 23 m (modelled)Jul 19

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

Dives

41 m
Deepest dive
2:00
Longest dive
73
Dives
14 m
Avg dive depth
5
Sightings
20
Days first → last

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Dive profile

modelled
0255041 mstartdive sequence (illustrative)

Depth shaped by the seafloor limit here (53 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 · Jul 3, 2026

measured
Seafloor depth
53 m
Sea-surface temperature
20.1°C
Distance from shore
6.0 km

Across the residency · 5 sightings

measured
Seafloor depth
27 m – 53 m
Sea-surface temperature
17.8°C – 20.1°C
Distance from shore
6.0 km – 25.0 km

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

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Source records

This activity is assembled from 5 catalogued encounters on Happywhale.

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