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Gulf of Maine

Halloween – Residency

11th sighting in Gulf of Maine
Fluke of Halloween
Halloween Confirmed in the catalog @56755
Aug 6 – 21, 2026 · Gulf of Maine

This Cold Green Shelf, Mine

August full of familiar fins and the shallow chill I know so well.

41 m
Deepest dive
1:51
Longest dive
73
Dives
Sightings
6
Days between first and last sighting
15

Dive stats modelled within real depth limits — not measured

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SightingSeafloorSea tempDeepest dive (modelled)
Aug 6, 202614 m14.7°C9 m
Aug 11, 202645 m17.9°C38 m
Aug 12, 202619 m17.1°C17 m
Aug 13, 202615 m14.5°C12 m
Aug 16, 202652 m13.4°C41 m
Aug 21, 202645 m15.3°C29 m

Seafloor and sea temperature measured · ✳ dives modelled

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Deepest dive against the seafloor, per sighting

Seafloor · measured Deepest dive · modelled
Aug 6, 2026 — seafloor 14 m (measured), deepest dive 9 m (modelled)Aug 6Aug 11, 2026 — seafloor 45 m (measured), deepest dive 38 m (modelled)Aug 11Aug 12, 2026 — seafloor 19 m (measured), deepest dive 17 m (modelled)Aug 12Aug 13, 2026 — seafloor 15 m (measured), deepest dive 12 m (modelled)Aug 13Aug 16, 2026 — seafloor 52 m (measured), deepest dive 41 m (modelled)Aug 16Aug 21, 2026 — seafloor 45 m (measured), deepest dive 29 m (modelled)Aug 21

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

Dives

41 m
Deepest dive
1:51
Longest dive
73
Dives
11 m
Avg dive depth
6
Sightings
15
Days first → last

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Dive profile

modelled
0255041 mstartdive sequence (illustrative)

Depth shaped by the seafloor limit here (52 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, 2026

measured
Seafloor depth
52 m
Sea-surface temperature
13.4°C
Distance from shore
4.0 km

Across the residency · 6 sightings

measured
Seafloor depth
14 m – 52 m
Sea-surface temperature
13.4°C – 17.9°C
Distance from shore
1.0 km – 15.0 km

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

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Source records

This activity is assembled from 6 catalogued encounters on Happywhale.

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