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Gulf of Maine

Tusk – Residency

11th sighting in Gulf of Maine
Fluke of Tusk
Tusk Confirmed in the catalog @7307
Jul 9 – 24, 2023 · Gulf of Maine

Gulf of Maine · Jul 2023

73 m
Deepest dive
2:55
Longest dive
49
Dives
Sightings
4
Days between first and last sighting
15

Dive stats modelled within real depth limits — not measured

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SightingSeafloorSea tempDeepest dive (modelled)
Jul 9, 2023106 m—62 m
Jul 12, 2023119 m—73 m
Jul 23, 202382 m—49 m
Jul 24, 202331 m—26 m

Seafloor and sea temperature measured · ✳ dives modelled

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Deepest dive against the seafloor, per sighting

Seafloor · measured Deepest dive · modelled
Jul 9, 2023 — seafloor 106 m (measured), deepest dive 62 m (modelled)Jul 9Jul 12, 2023 — seafloor 119 m (measured), deepest dive 73 m (modelled)Jul 12Jul 23, 2023 — seafloor 82 m (measured), deepest dive 49 m (modelled)Jul 23Jul 24, 2023 — seafloor 31 m (measured), deepest dive 26 m (modelled)Jul 24

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

Dives

73 m
Deepest dive
2:55
Longest dive
49
Dives
20 m
Avg dive depth
4
Sightings
15
Days first → last

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Dive profile

modelled
05010073 mstartdive sequence (illustrative)

Depth shaped by the seafloor limit here (119 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 12, 2023

measured
Seafloor depth
119 m
Sea-surface temperature
—
Distance from shore
5.0 km

Across the residency · 4 sightings

measured
Seafloor depth
31 m – 119 m
Sea-surface temperature
—
Distance from shore
4.0 km – 8.0 km

Sources: GEBCO seafloor grid · 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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