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Gulf of Maine

Patchwork – Residency

29th sighting in Gulf of Maine
Fluke of Patchwork
Patchwork Confirmed in the catalog @7313
Jul 7 – Oct 12, 2026 · Gulf of Maine

Thick Bait, Thicker Company

Shelf edge stacked with fish and neighbours all summer long.

137 m
Deepest dive
4:47
Longest dive
160
Dives
Sightings
11
Days between first and last sighting
97
Deepest dive on record
137 m · this residency

Dive stats modelled within real depth limits — not measured

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SightingSeafloorSea tempDeepest dive (modelled)
Jul 7, 2026198 m14.0°C79 m
Jul 11, 202651 m14.4°C47 m
Jul 11, 202642 m14.5°C29 m
Jul 23, 2026192 m14.2°C137 m
Aug 1, 202695 m14.5°C76 m
Aug 7, 2026107 m15.0°C29 m
Aug 11, 202626 m16.9°C23 m
Aug 13, 202612 m15.3°C11 m
Aug 21, 202686 m15.3°C34 m
Sep 30, 202645 m—39 m
Oct 12, 202627 m—22 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 7, 2026 — seafloor 198 m (measured), deepest dive 79 m (modelled)Jul 7Jul 11, 2026 — seafloor 51 m (measured), deepest dive 47 m (modelled)Jul 11Jul 11, 2026 — seafloor 42 m (measured), deepest dive 29 m (modelled)Jul 11Jul 23, 2026 — seafloor 192 m (measured), deepest dive 137 m (modelled)Jul 23Aug 1, 2026 — seafloor 95 m (measured), deepest dive 76 m (modelled)Aug 1Aug 7, 2026 — seafloor 107 m (measured), deepest dive 29 m (modelled)Aug 7Aug 11, 2026 — seafloor 26 m (measured), deepest dive 23 m (modelled)Aug 11Aug 13, 2026 — seafloor 12 m (measured), deepest dive 11 m (modelled)Aug 13Aug 21, 2026 — seafloor 86 m (measured), deepest dive 34 m (modelled)Aug 21Sep 30, 2026 — seafloor 45 m (measured), deepest dive 39 m (modelled)Sep 30Oct 12, 2026 — seafloor 27 m (measured), deepest dive 22 m (modelled)Oct 12

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

Dives

137 m
Deepest dive
4:47
Longest dive
160
Dives
18 m
Avg dive depth
11
Sightings
97
Days first → last

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Dive profile

modelled
075150137 mstartdive sequence (illustrative)

Depth shaped by the seafloor limit here (192 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 23, 2026

measured
Seafloor depth
192 m
Sea-surface temperature
14.2°C
Distance from shore
15.0 km

Across the residency · 11 sightings

measured
Seafloor depth
12 m – 198 m
Sea-surface temperature
14.0°C – 16.9°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 11 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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