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Gulf of Maine

Orion – Residency

14th sighting in Gulf of Maine
Fluke of Orion
Orion Confirmed in the catalog @7318
Jul 7 – Sep 13, 2026 · Gulf of Maine

Sand Lance Summer

Late summer on the banks, feeding hard, spotted plenty — good stretch to be me.

134 m
Deepest dive
4:20
Longest dive
35
Dives
Sightings
4
Days between first and last sighting
68
Deepest dive on record
134 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°C75 m
Jul 17, 2026147 m11.8°C134 m
Aug 5, 202656 m19.1°C16 m
Sep 13, 202628 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 7, 2026 — seafloor 198 m (measured), deepest dive 75 m (modelled)Jul 7Jul 17, 2026 — seafloor 147 m (measured), deepest dive 134 m (modelled)Jul 17Aug 5, 2026 — seafloor 56 m (measured), deepest dive 16 m (modelled)Aug 5Sep 13, 2026 — seafloor 28 m (measured), deepest dive 26 m (modelled)Sep 13

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

Dives

134 m
Deepest dive
4:20
Longest dive
35
Dives
22 m
Avg dive depth
4
Sightings
68
Days first → last

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Dive profile

modelled
075150134 mstartdive sequence (illustrative)

Depth shaped by the seafloor limit here (147 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 17, 2026

measured
Seafloor depth
147 m
Sea-surface temperature
11.8°C
Distance from shore
20.0 km

Across the residency · 4 sightings

measured
Seafloor depth
28 m – 198 m
Sea-surface temperature
11.8°C – 19.1°C
Distance from shore
10.0 km – 28.0 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.

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